The french are laughably silly. I once tried to buy a french-made computer hardware product for a research study here in the US. The company rejected our purchase order because it did not use the proper language for the delivery address. When we tried to change the PO to their liking, they refused to sell to us because it wasn't done correctly the first time. It gave me such pleasure to get their sales director on the phone and tell him what a total idiot he was and how I would enjoy changing the study requirements to not allow any future purchase of their inferior french products.
As Elaine on Seinfeld would say, "That's address discrimination!"