To be fair, France is insanely biased towards maths. The typical curriculum if you want a correct career in CS outside of research is to go through an engineering school and the amount of maths (and physics) you need to enter and then to graduate is mostly equivalent to a BSc. I did an engineering degree in France and an MSc in the UK, I can compare. Globally, a French student leaving high school has done slightly more maths than a UK/US first year university maths major (calculus and basic linear algebra are taught in high school). A typical CS major in France, independently of the cursus, will most likely have done the same amount of maths than someone with a maths MSc in the UK (I am talking of a 5 years curriculum which is standard for a CS degree in France). If you take a country still using the old French curriculum like Marocco, the difference is even worse. Part of the high school maths program of Marocco are only taught in advance algebra course in the UK (stuff like cyclic groups).

Everytime I read this kind of article, I can't prevent myself from thinking it's mostly a UK/US problem.