Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume is the French equivalent of The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It’s the shortest sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet. The French pangram contains 37 letters, two more than the English one. On the other hand, the French version has no repetitive vowels. Some people have tried to create even shorter pangrams but they ended up as nonsensical phrases like Jerk ! zig vint : body, phlox, musc, waqf.

Irony: this French pangram was invented in Belgium, and first appeared in the Belgian version of Mickey Mouse Magazine!