France is home to around six million Muslims, the biggest Muslim community in Europe.
The French are used to being an occupied country.
BTW the French "Mediterranean Look" is really the genetic inheritance of the last Muslim conquest of Europe. Southern France is the progenitor of nearly all Christian heresies in the past 1000 years. Its where "Kill them all and God will know his own" was first said concerning the Albigensian heresy at Carcasonne. Stamping out Islam is like stamping out ants. you need strategy before exhausting yourself with futile, febrile efforts.
It's easy to occupy a country where the men lay down before a threat as quickly as their round heeled women do for men with money or cigarettes...
Semper Fi