Thank you for injecting this Truth (it deserves a capital “T”) into the French debate. Nearly all of the academic theories that the French academy is tracing to the United States originated in structuralist and post-structuralist theory - and the full embrace of atheism that took hold of France post-war. Genet and Foucault (and their godfather, Karl Marx) are to blame; along with their fellow travelers in the professoriate.
Ironically, a lot of the French Marxist influence came through European academics we had admitted here as refugees during WWII. A lot of thanks we get!