At least they're fighting for their mother tongue...
Maybe they're proud of their State?
Maybe they still feel there is a French State to be proud of?
As an Englishman who feels State-less and that he has no State of which to be proud, I can't help taking my hat off to anything that looks like national pride, no matter how petty it might seem under certain lighting conditions.
I'd have emigrated years ago, but even for a fluent French-speaker and avid francophile, decent jobs there are a closed shop. And I can't help applauding that.