I am actually surprised no one has pointed out Dailymotion a Youtube like service which does well in France [0,1]. It has most feature which Youtube provides.

[0] http://www.dailymotion.com/

[1] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailymotion.com#

Off-topic but interesting fact

One of the founders of YouTube - Steve Chen - worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook for a few months in 2005 before leaving to start YouTube. He is one of the first 20 employees of Facebook [2].

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-20-employees-...