I am a French consultant. I live in Toulouse, South of France and one of the greatest European space centers.
My background: C++, OMT, Unified Process & UML, patterns... See http://www.thierrycros.net
I've founded the French XP association: http://www.xpfrance.free.fr, and we've organized a first French meeting in Paris June 19th 2001. See FrenchXpUsersGroup.
Feb, 2004: Book about XP: "Maitriser les projets avec l'Extreme Programming" mastering projects with XP : "Customer-Tests driven project" http://xp.thierrycros.net