Most of the French folks I meet say that French employment law is the number 1 reason why startups can't work terribly well in France. As well as all of the ben

Most of the French folks I meet say that French employment law is the number 1 reason why startups can't work terribly well in France. As well as all of the benefits you listed, there are employee protections that make it very difficult to get rid of staff if things start to go wrong. Not being French, I don't know the details, but it's supposed to be much easier to run a startup in Germany or the UK. They both have their own employee protection but it looks a bit more evened out.