At the risk of being overly pious, if you went back and substituted 'the English' or 'the Americans' or 'the Kiwis' for 'the French' in posts in this thread, AWAD would by now be in civil war.

We're all here because we're wordies. We happen to be wordies who are (mostly) native speaker of the world's dominant language. We complain (loads of us, including me!) about misuse of our language. Why are we being so mean about French people who care about their language?

BTW I do not agree with the way the Academie go about things and I think they are misguided, but I sympathise with the simple fact that they care about language.