In my experience,French people in Paris really don’t want you speaking French. They almost all speak English and find bad accents irritating.

When we got to our hotel I went to the front desk and said “hey I’m sorry I don’t speak much French but we have a reservation.” And the lady who was Swiss looked at me and said “but you’re speaking French now” and proceeded to tell me a bunch of stuff. Then she saw my face and started laughing. That little razz was one of the highlights of that trip. Any time I spoke French to anyone else they would wince and switch to English. Except for the Italian guy at one of the restaurants we went to, he was pretty cool about it.

Outside of Paris, the French people were really cool about working with my bad, broken French. Possibly because they didn’t speak any more English than I did French. Usually less.