Joe, Joe, Joe - they’re expats. They’ve self-selected to live somewhere other than the USA. And that somewhere is France. Why waste your breath?
Although I’m dismayed at my inability to find it, I am certain that Mr. Mark Twain once said, “France is where insignificant Americans go to die.”
http://twainquotes.com/French.html
Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die.
- Mark Twain, Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879