Voting machines by Le Dominion, nes se pas? Seriously, though, I think France does deserve some respect for having the distinction of recovering from brutal and incompetent tyranny (Louis, Napoleon), brutal and incompetent leftism (Robespierre), and brutal and incompetent occupation (the little housepainter with the mustache) and managed to clamber into the 21st century still relatively free and prosperous and with a population ready to take to the streets in protest over corruption (remember the yellow vests?)
It's not nothing.