but I was shocked to read a certain French aircraft requires full back stick for the recovery (Blimey) thus debunking the ssr.
Not quite true, when they tried to sell it to the RAF as a trainer I understand a requirement was that it did recover with "SSR", sorry to use the term, but not sure how else to put it. With this requirement they then demoed that that recovery worked no problem - I believe full up elevator just gave a faster recovery.
You SHOULD however still read the POH and that is the correct recovery for the aircraft you are flying.