They don’t have any rifles. They dropped theirs then sold them. Remember the saying “taking a Frenchman to war is about as useful as taking a banjo deer hunting”?
You know the French and Banjo’s, they most enjoy the love scene in Deliverance. Perhaps if we make the great movie, Macron County Line, we will win the Palm D’Orr at Cannes nez pas. Looks like a job for the EU army you are building.