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Dear Boris,
Actually, some of the difficulties may be from your wood not having the most forgiving grain, and that can pose a challenge to anyone, including those who can sharpen to perfection.
Going by your first attached photo and the ‘bevel_after_sharpening’ attachment, the grain seems to go from right to left for some 4 out of 5 of the width, while at the same time rising up through the thickness of the board. My attached ‘Wild_Grain’ shows one of too many depressing outcomes when trying to smooth a board of similar grain. After having relegated the smoothing plane, I tried two scraper planes and a cabinet scraper, before turning to a simple scraper blade. This, the least expensive of them, was the one least bothered by the grain.
For whatever it’s worth, here are two links to two well reputed Net-retailers of tools. Both deliver to France
https://www.fine-tools.com/
https://www.classichandtools.com/index.html
and this should be the recognised French Dealer of Veritas Tools (the great helper to all of us who struggle with sharp, straight, and square) http://www.bordet.fr/index.cfm
Best
Sven-Olof