-considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
-compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical
-compressors.
-
-The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU Gzip,
-but they are not identical.
+considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
+LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
+family of statistical compressors. The command-line options are
+deliberately very similar to those of GNU Gzip, but they are not
+identical.
+
+%description -l fr
+Bzip2 compresse des fichiers en utilisant l'algorithme de compression
+en tri de blocks de texte Burrows-Wheeler, et le codage Huffman. La
+compression est considérablement meilleure que celle effectuée par les
+plus conventionels compresseurs basés sur LZ77/LZ78, et approche la
+performance de la famille PPM de compresseurs statistiques.