I don't understand your point. What should this mean to us? That the Wright's didn't publicly disclose their early flyer? We already know that to be true?
The headline only reference to the French government and the illustration of a plane that does not reveal the Wright's actual plane is consistent with the Wright's decision to initially develop in secrecy, and also with Scientific American from 7 April 1906, cited by you, which says:
Owing to the fact that as soon as they had met with success the two brothers attempted to sell their machine to the French government for war purposes and that, having it unprotected as yet by patents, they did not wish to disclose anything about it, photographs or data of interest are not available for publication.
The Scientific American article, not surprisingly, only showed photos of the Wright's glider.