[CPOSharky]

...French high-end retail group...

Those guys were unpleasent and impolite to foreigners? Tell me it ain't so. /S

[TigerLikesRooster]

You know, I once heard from a lady who visited Paris. She found French so rude that she complained it to a concierge at a hotel she stayed. He replied, “Nothing personal, Madame. We always do it to one another.”