diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt

index 1db57832..3238d9b2 100644

--- a/CMakeLists.txt

+++ b/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ set (EMBED_RESOURCES

 res/lang/en.bin

 res/lang/es.bin

 res/lang/fi.bin

+ res/lang/fr.bin

 res/lang/ie.bin

 res/lang/ru.bin

 res/lang/sr.bin

diff --git a/po/compile.py b/po/compile.py

index 0bff919f..44fd92b4 100755

--- a/po/compile.py

+++ b/po/compile.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@



import os, sys



-BUILD_LANGS = ['en', 'es', 'fi', 'ie', 'ru', 'sr', 'zh_Hans', 'zh_Hant']

+BUILD_LANGS = ['en', 'de', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'ie', 'ru', 'sr', 'zh_Hans', 'zh_Hant']

MODE = 'compile'

ESCAPES = {

 '\\': '\\',

diff --git a/res/lang/fr.bin b/res/lang/fr.bin

new file mode 100644

index 00000000..c25f6b17

Binary files /dev/null and b/res/lang/fr.bin differ

diff --git a/src/lang.c b/src/lang.c

index 38d2dc90..750e282c 100644

--- a/src/lang.c

+++ b/src/lang.c

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static void load_Lang_(iLang *d, const char *id) {

 /* Load compiled language strings from an embedded blob. */

 iUnused(id);

 const iBlock *data = equal_CStr(id, "fi")      ? &blobFi_Embedded

+ : equal_CStr(id, "fr") ? &blobFr_Embedded

                    : equal_CStr(id, "ru")      ? &blobRu_Embedded

                    : equal_CStr(id, "es")      ? &blobEs_Embedded

// : equal_CStr(id, "de") ? &blobDe_Embedded

diff --git a/src/ui/util.c b/src/ui/util.c

index ddaccd68..45751a3f 100644

--- a/src/ui/util.c

+++ b/src/ui/util.c

@@ -1961,6 +1961,7 @@ iWidget *makePreferences_Widget(void) {

             { "${lang.en} - en", 0, 0, "uilang id:en" },

             { "${lang.es} - es", 0, 0, "uilang id:es" },

             { "${lang.fi} - fi", 0, 0, "uilang id:fi" },

+ { "${lang.fr} - fr", 0, 0, "uilang id:fr" },

             { "${lang.ie} - ie", 0, 0, "uilang id:ie" },

             { "${lang.ru} - ru", 0, 0, "uilang id:ru" },

             { "${lang.sr} - sr", 0, 0, "uilang id:sr" },