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I've heard that it has the historical explanation that back in time, the ground floor was often literally the ground, so the first floor was actually the first floor. Don't know if that's correct, but I seem to remember having heard/read it somewhere.
It might be, the whole étage thing has been loanworded to hell by a lot of languages, it might come from that.