Belote French Championships

[Pirolito]

I recently started to play trick taking games at BGA, to which I'm very used to due to playing a lot of the Portuguese ones. And I've became quite fond of Belote.

I've read that there are French Championships of Belote, and there were some French Federations in the last years. I have some doubts:

- Do French Championships still exist?

- Is it restricted to French players?

- Is there a qualification system?

- Is there a known French Federation? (The websites I found in the internet are quite old.)

Thanks in advance for your replies.