Oh I have no doubt about that, nor the fact that it may well not be justified at all that the DGAC does it.
I think that those who went through the likes of ENAC in days of old might perhaps be able to claim with some justification that their "ATPL" has some degree
of equivalence with the French academic "licence" ( degree to us Anglo Saxons). I can't comment as to whether that is still the case.