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"Jeux & Stratégie" (Games & Strategy) was THE game magazine of the 80's in France. The first issue was a quarterly magazine, but the success was such that it became a bimonthly with the second one.
Inside the magazine, you could find everything. Great classics (chess, checkers, backgamon, go, etc...), mathematical games, puzzles, cryptography games, games for programmable pocket calculator, games for computers in basic and, of course, boardgames, role-playing games and wargames.
Each issue came with a complete game as an insert (with counters to be mounted). These games covered a large span of genres, as you will see in this geeklist.
Jeux & Stratégie (or J&S, as fans called it with affection) is mythical in France because it was the very first magazine to introduce role-playing games and wargames to a national audience. (Casus Belli was at first a confidential magazine for gamers only.)
J&S lasted 9 years and a half, with 60 issues. With the competition of video games, and specialized magazines, J&S died a first time in July 1989. Three months later, a part of the redaction tried to relive the magazine. This new series (Nouvelle Formule) lasted for 8 issues only and J&S died a second time in July 1990.
In 2004, a new magazine relived the name as "Tangente Jeux & stratégie". I don't include it here. For now...
There is the complete list of boardgames and wargames published by J&S. In some occasions, small boardgames were published inside the magazine (and leads to the destruction of some pages  ). The infamous "Don juans et drageurs" is the best exemple of these littles boardgames. I'm not sure they deserve a full entry in BGG. So, for now, I list them in the comments.
On 68 issues, some aren't listed here because the insert was remplaced by mini-role-playing games (blame the budget cuts). And so, no entry on BGG for issues 56, 59, 61 (or NF1), 64 (NF4) and 65 (NF5). J&S had also three special issues (hors-série): role playing games "Mega 1" and "Mega 2" and a special video games issue.
As I haven't play these games for a very long time, I do not rate them, but I will comment some of them. Those I remenber at last... 
NOTE: Laurent Journaux (Laurent36) put together the ultimate web ressource about J&S games ! High quality scans and links can be found here (in french):
http://laurent36.vox.com/library/posts/tags/jeux+et+strat%C3...
Note 2: If you want more french wargames, see the Christophe Foley list here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19763
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Jeux & Stratégie n°1 (février/mars 1980)
Talk about "La guerre des Ducs" to old french grognards. For many this was the very beginning... A generic wargame with napoleonic flavour.
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Jeux & Stratégie n°2 (avril/mai 1980)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°3 (juin/juillet 1980)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°4 (août/septembre 1980)
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Board Game: Display
[Average Rating:6.38 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°5 (octobre/novembre 1980)
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Board Game: Heraklios
[Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°6 (décembre 1980/janvier 1981)
The first french national wargame competition was played with this 4 players game.
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Jeux & Stratégie n°7 (février/mars 1981)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°8 (avril/mai 1981)
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Board Game: Jamaïca
[Average Rating:6.25 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°9 (juin/juillet 1981)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°10 (août/septembre 1981)
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Board Game: Annexion
[Average Rating:5.33 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°11 (octobre/novembre 1981)
Another generic wargame with napoleonic flavour.
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Board Game: Chimères
[Average Rating:5.83 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°12 (décembre 1981/janvier 1982)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°13 (février/mars 1982)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°14 (avril/mai 1982)
A very fun one ! A fightfood in a school cafeteria ! Weapons are mashed potatoes, camenbert cheese, spaghettis and tripes à la mode de Caen... Each player have a band of stereotyped school boys. Neutral boys (who can turn bersek if they are attacked), teachers and the chef are in the way of the rival bands. To win, you must (litteraly) cover ennemies with food to lower their moral and force them to leave the cafeteria (the tripes are the most destructive weapons in this regard). The winner is the player who is the last to have one school boy in the cafeteria.
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Jeux & Stratégie n°15 (juin/juillet 1982)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°16 (août/septembre 1982)
Are you the next Arsène Lupin ? Find out with this one.
+ "4 mini-wargames"
The first mini-boardgame (four in fact in this issue). Four wargames very very generic.
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Jeux & Stratégie n°17 (octobre/novembre 1982)
+ "Robots contre robots"
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Board Game: Oméga
[Average Rating:6.50 Unranked]
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Jeux & Stratégie n°18 (décembre 1982/janvier 1983)
+ "Stage Coach"
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Jeux & Stratégie n°19 (février/mars 1983)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°20 (avril/mai 1983)
A nice one. Players manage their own postal air company in the 1920's. Can you bring letters to Chile and come back to France before the others ?
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Jeux & Stratégie n°21 (juin/juillet 1983)
A ambitious wargame. Will you be better than the Emperor in the vastness of Russia ?
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Jeux & Stratégie n°22 (août/septembre 1983)
An ecological game. As a sea turtle from the Galapagos island, can you bring your offsprings to the sea before the others players ?
+ "Don juans & Dragueurs"
The infamous mini boardgame. As a Play Boy at the Club Med, will you maintain your tan, your money, your look and your health AND be able to "score"... Seduction points I mean...
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Jeux & Stratégie n°23 (octobre/novembre 1983)
A direct inspiration from "Rollerball", the movie with James Caan.
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Jeux & Stratégie n°24 (décembre 1983/janvier 1984)
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Jeux & Stratégie n°25 (février/mars 1984)
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