Didn't French aeroplanes, pre-war, mostly use throttles in the "wrong" sense? Naval test pilot Eric Brown mentions it in a couple of his books - when the Fleet Air Arm received their first Grumman Martlet / Wildcat types, they included aircraft diverted from a French navy order (France having fallen in the interim). Those had "pull for loud, push for quiet" throttles. Bad enough if you're operating on land but for carrier ops presumably even more disconcerting...