Oh, I thought they’d misspelt septic…
I don’t see any holes for the bolts that’d attach said planks and rail…
Granted, the image isn’t blessed with an abundance of pixels, and suffers from an excess of JPEG… but from what can be seen, I expect we’d still be able to see some trace of holes or other mounting points if this wasn’t supposed to be a finished product…
Look at the bright side: every day is the best day of the rest of our lives!
Yeah, there’s no need for the redundancy, really; if you say “French” you can omit “pretentious”, it’s already implied.