Changing langage in JFileChooser.

Hi!
I've got a problem: I want to display a JFileChooser in french, and I don't know how to choose the langage displayed!
Maybe somebody can help?
Many thanks! :)

I tried the both; changing JVM locale and even changing myJFileChooser.setLocale...
but none works!
I'm desperatly looking for a solution!
I thougt about the ressources bundles for swing, but i didn't find a way to change it for the JFileChooser.
What do you think about it?
Many thanks!!!!
:)

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