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I believe there is a cognate, perhaps spelled the same way, but meaning something different.
I have asked a few native French speakers. They seem to agree that they have a word "bacon" but they are not certain that it has the same meaning as in English.
The English Breakfast Society a son mot à dire à propos du bacon. Une image vaut mieux qu'un long discours:
Le bacon français ressemble au Canadian Bacon.
L'American Bacon se nomme poitrine en français. Elle peut être salée ou fumée. Lorsqu'elle est taillée en morceaux plus petits, on obtient des lardons. Elle peut également être roulée: elle se nomme alors ventrèche dans le sud de la France.
Je n'ai jamais trouvé de British Back Bacon chez les charcutiers que je fréquente à Toulouse.
There are at least two things that might be named bacon in France.
The first one is made of round slices of pork meat.
The other one made of long and rectangular slices of smoked fat meat and is also called lard fumé or poitrine fumée in French.
In Quebec my personal experience is to say "petit lard" for American bacon, but "bacon" is also used.
