it was about 10 years ago that I flew there and it was with FIS that I tried to contact, NOT a French-only airfield. Especialy the gal at FIS Paris
And one guy at a field we landed at spoke English ok, but there were so many misunderstandings, he almost caused us to fly into the track of a single seater aerobatic jet trainer (long story). After our landing he looked a bit nervous... the next day we found out he spoke perfect German (former ATC at Berlin Tegel).
P.S. we were two female pilots flying a PA28... not very "gentlemanly"
