Sounds like you got a rough deal. Yeah I've met a few arrogent Frenchmen. Quite a few. But I've also met some great people. Like the Two guys who fed and watered both my (now ) wife and I, and celebrated my Birthday with us by opening some prized champagne and a bottle of single malt despite only having met us in a bar that night and knowing nothing about us other than that I rode a Triumph like them. So you get all sorts, in any country. Not great to write a nation off just because of a few bad pennies.