Warning: Irony. The French are fantastic people. They eat some of the best food in the world, have great wine, and hardly go to work but have no problem picketing the streets for months if somebody tells them to work 40 hours a week. And their attitude towards extramarital affairs is so relaxed that the English language uses a French word to describe it.
Apparently during the cold war Soviet kompromat didn't work on the French.
Russian spook: 'work with us or we'll tell your wife about your affair'.
French: 'go bore her, she already knows'.