Does anybody know what the currency requirements are on either of these? I can't imagine turning up at Megeve and landing there having not done so for 6 months or so!
Common sense would suggest that you turned up in recent practice on taildraggers and at shortfield landings. No point making life difficult for yourself!
Is all the training exams etc in the lingo, are there any Bilingual instructors?
Ask around. There probably are. There's a list of clubs on the AFPM page.
For those who can parley un peu de la inky-pinky, ici est un web page interessant:
http://bravomike.free.fr/pipercub.htm
(Looks like a 90HP Super Cub and I don't quite know why he thinks it's a PA19?)
Again, for anyone who can speak French, this is useful as a summary of what it all entails:
http://www.aeroclubdauphine.asso.fr/.../montagne.html
Once, many moons ago, I did a similar course in the Idaho backcountry in a 172 and a Super Cub. It was when we had full power on and were descending at 2,000 feet a minute that I realised there was a little more to this stuff than first met the eye. ;-)
QDM