The more lobbying people do with DGAC France the better. In fact small pressure groups might have more persuasive 'clout' than the politics. Rest assured this problem will go away when EASA takes over responsibility for Flight Crew Licensing in the EU States, but that is still probably about 2 years away, and the French will want to influence what is made law!
Try going in at the highest level of DGAC and write to Maxime Coffin....actually, the more the better....