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Why so mealy mouthed? Two dogs and a bitch, please.

Translated as: "Out of all the lies you told, none is believable."

Is this French example used simply to illustrate French grammar?

Because as a statement of logic, the statement is nonsense.  The second half of the statement is superfluous. Lies are ipso facto not credible (that is the nature of a lie). So of course 100% of the time they are not credible.

As an analogy, no one would say: "Out of all the green marbles you gave me, none is orange."

If instead you said: "Out of all the statements you told, none is believable" (or correct in French: "De tous les choses que tu as dit, aucun n'est crédible"?) or "Out of all the marbles you gave me, none is orange", these full sentences have logical meaning.

Qu'est dans la boîte? 

Quel est dans la boîte?

Small point of detail : la République Française, or la République française ?

I think this should be la République française   (française not capitalised).

What is the consensus on this  ? Does it matter ? Would either be ok ?

On Wikipedia,  in this context , française generally seems to be in lower case, and I think the same on L'OBS web site.