After reading the reporting by AFP and Europe 1, I'll take the reporting by Le Figaro, which seems to have a bit more knowledge of aviation. (LF's flash story is the AFP story.)
AFP and Europe 1 offer an incomplete account. Their unnamed source states that AF447 flew around the area of turbulence, but the same source would not say anything about the last few minutes of the flight.
My interpretation of this is that FDR does not record any encounter with moderate/severe turbulence before the last few minutes. (The flight is still within the meso convective system however.)
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The other note of interest from French press accounts today is the claim that Airbus is pressuring the BEA to reveal the results (presumably exonerating Airbus) before the Paris Air Show.