I've met a couple of decent french people. One is a chef at the culinary school I go to. He's an old school french chef. He curses liberally and yells like a mad man, but deep down inside he's kinda sweet. Another women I met was totally cool; she has the cutest french accent, but she was not born in France just raised there.
When my cousin visited France a cab driver gave him a hard time, making fun of his command of French and just being a total jerk. That's totally ridiculous when you think you are paying the cab driver for a service.
One thing we could all agree having mandatory six weeks paid vacation must be great. Too bad that will never happen in workaholic America.