French Language Attitudes

Not surprised this sort of thing pops up specifically for french. France is known to not speak English in some situations even though they know English.

French people love their language a lot (to a point where they expect you to speak french when they go on vacation in Spain/Portugal )Not saying it's a bad thing per se (although I find it a little rude) but that might explain why they don't see the very poorly made choice.

France is a very special case, so is Quebec. Your French was probably more than intelligible to natives, they scoffed you out of nationalistic pride, how dare you try speaking the holy language of culture and fine art.

French are well known for protecting their language use and jealously dismissing English popularity taking every opportunity to speak French where they can get away with it ;)

Not everyone understand French.

Unfortunately that French attitude is also somewhat apparent in the way many French people speak English. English is not really its own language, so not worth learning properly. (Or at least learn a pronunciation that is close enough to be understood.)

to most french people, it's the actual content being in english that isn't helping...

Have you ever been to France and tried speaking French after a few years of study? Have you ever had to deal with someone there who speaks far better English than you, but refuses to because of snobbery?This article is trash

I'm fluent in French. Quebecois French. In France they're just rude about it, even when they speak terrible english. I would absolutely do the same thing.

Language might play a role in this, with pretty aggressive aversion to communicating with outsiders in anything other than French.