Double opening exterior french door and door improvements

An exterior, double opening french door assembly, comprising:

• a door frame including a sill, head and jambs, the head and jambs having wood cores and exterior aluminum cladding;
• a pair of door panels each hingedly mounted on a door jamb, and each including stiles, rails and double glazing panels mounted on the stiles and rails, the stiles and rails having wood cores and exterior aluminum cladding, the double glazing panels defining an insulating, glazing panel air space therebetween, the aluminum cladding being pierced with lances, and the stiles defining air passages from the glazing panel air spaces to the lances;
• interior, air seal weatherstripping on the jambs and head of the door frame and on a stile of one of the door panels between the door panels, the weatherstripping located to contact the aluminum cladding on the door frames interior to the lances;
• exterior, water seal weatherstripping and exterior weatherstripping retainers, the retainers mounted to the jambs and head of the door frame and to a stile of one of the door panels between the door panels, the retainers having two adjacent, alternate weatherstripping kerfs for receiving the exterior, water seal weatherstripping, the exterior, water seal weatherstripping being placed in the kerfs to the exterior of the air seal weatherstripping to contact the aluminum cladding on the door frames exterior to the lances;
• the water seal and air seal weatherstripping together providing therebetween an insulating, weatherstripping air space about the jambs and head of the door frame and between the door panels.

A door assembly, comprising:

• a door frame including a sill, a head and opposite jambs;
• a door having interior and exterior sides and being hingedly mounted on one of said jambs of said door frame and including stiles, rails, and spaced apart glazing panels mounted within the stiles and rails so as to define an insulating air space therebetween:
• first weatherstripping means cooperating with said door and said jambs of said door frame for providing a substantially air-tight seal therebetween when said door is closed within said door frame;
• second weatherstripping means cooperating with said door and said jambs of said door frame for providing a substantially water-tight seal therebetween when said door is closed within said door frame;
• said second weatherstripping means being positioned exteriorally of said first weatherstripping means so as to define a weatherstripping air space therebetween;
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• said door having at least one passage therein providing communication between said insulating air space and said weatherstripping air space.