"Have" as perfective auxilliary in various languages

I have noticed that perfect tense in German and French use "have" as
auxilliary as English does. I have been wondering if this tendency is
"universal" among languages which use auxilliary verbs for the perfect
or whether it is just a coincidence among the three languages that I
know a little bit about.

[Preemptive yeah-I-know's:]

- Many motion related verbs in French use etre as the past and perfect
auxilliary.

- My knowledge of German is way limited, and for all I know there
could be many exceptions to using haben as the perfect auxilliary that
I am clueless about. If my comments warrant correction on this point,
please be kind.

- Paul Schrum

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