fsquared with the crazy-quick answer :-P Good find.
What projectbabel says about it, or at least the forumite there, is that both languages derive from an ancient parent word involving blood. English developed by way of the pagan rite of consecrating something through the spilling of blood, and eventually focused just on the consecration part of it. The French "blesser," on the other hand, developed in the direction of the spilling of blood, without the religious connotation.
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