G'day chikoniko,
It's likely that at the time of producing the French version of the game, the developers already applied the 1.1.2.177 patch... into the original CD before shipping it off to the stores.
Hence, the link I provided above to 3dGamers only has a French Retail Version 1.1.2.177 patch to the new 1.1.2.178.......
So, its presumed that you've already applied that 1.1.2.178 French patch, downloaded the 1.1.2178 Crack / fix (English) off Game Copy World applied it & well.... your still seeing the intro movie & then the crash to the desktop with the "File Not Found " error...... To me this simply means you have to find a French Crack / Fix for version 1.1.2.178 & it's obvious that the English version fix on a French install will not work......
To confirm this have you tried replacing the cracked exe back to the original exe (you did a backup of course ....
) & with the game patched up to Version 1.1.2.178.... does the game go past the movies with the original CD in your drive ?