Many famous Belgian in France, Jacques Brel for example.
As for France...
In Europe it has to be understood that when it comes:
-to space (the very successful Arianespace in french guyana, one of the busiest space port in the world, if not the busiest),
-to airliners (Airbus),
-to helicopter (Eurocopter),
-or jet fighters (Dassault),
the core, the center and the source are in each of this cases France.
That's only a fact, it might change in the future, but today this is the case and the sooner Europe will understand it for the future projects, the better it will be.
Now the Rafale itself. Comon! Some posters seem to be surprised here...
This last past century in Europe, ONLY France has sold THOUSANDS of jet fighters (french Dassault jet fighter) all around the world, involved in many different wars.
The french Dassault jet fighters have a war experience this half past century that nobody can match in Europe. As simple as that.
India (like many countries around the world) already had and still have many Dassault jet fighters. Rafale is a Dassault jet fighter, in fact there is no surprise here in the fact Rafale has been chosen.