Maybe you should get some first hand experience there first before making such grand statements. France is in fairly deep trouble in spite of nominally getting out of the current recession early (in part because of a massive increase of public debt), it's Southern neighbor Spain (and major trading partner) is doing (much) worse.

There are a lot of people working hard to try to solve this but to say that France is 'sprinting' where the USA, UK, China and India are 'exhausted' is showing a serious lack in knowledge about the state of affairs.