Really? That would be interesting to know. My french isn't up to reading the newspapers. I would have guessed that the French view would be nationalistic anti-Americanism, of the 'you can't trust the US courts' variety. But I can imagine that, with that national difference factored in they might see it as a case of common American trollop pulling down a high cultural figure.
Still, seeing that it has became compulsory in British schools to perform the works of the Michael Jackson, European tolerance of high-profile US pederasts is surprisingly broad.