They might be good machines to fly but, having operated both, I would never again operate French machines. If you factor in the opportunity cost for the times when they can't fly the operating cost goes way up. We used to send our 355 gearboxes out to Canada, got them back within a week.
It reminds me of when we used to be urged to buy British - well, if the British made BMWs, then I'd buy one, not the cr*p the British Leyland pumped out.