Idk how you can call a country's scene with multiple top 100 teams & one of the best players in the world "dead"
I'm here from Indonesia with an actual dead CS scene. There's maybe like, less than a 100 people still playing regularly and only two active pro (bntet & forevint)
My theory about the French scene being so shit is that it's simply the end of the Golden Generation: shox, kennyS, NBK, apEX, Ex6TenZ, RpK, SmithZz, Happy, ScreaM...
Now the French scene is where it was before they arrived, like the 1.6 and early Source days: absolutely nowhere.