France has a long history of security-limiting policies. I don't know if it is still in effect, but at one point in the 90s, they did not allow software to have

France has a long history of security-limiting policies. I don't know if it is still in effect, but at one point in the 90s, they did not allow software to have better than 40-bit encryption. In turn, American software companies had to write French-only versions of their products of they wanted to sell to French customers.