France doesn't need to "work against this".
If that's the law in France, it trumps the license text.
Just as the law trumps any clause requiring the sacrifice of the licensee's firstborn on an altar.
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Doesn't this make it illegal to distribute GPL software in France under clause 12?
If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a
covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may
not convey it at all.
It doesn't make the distribution illegal per-se, but it does make the license invalid and thus the software unlicensed. Same as "public domain" licensing.
No it doesn't. If you don't have a license for the software, you cannot use it.