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They aren't. French curves were handmade to make smooth curves on hand-drawn drawings. They had no real formulae and every maker made many with smaller and larger radii in all sorts of sizes. Big ones were used for ships hull curves. There are ways of making similar curves with any CAD program, and that's how it's done today.
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