Speaking of analytical capability, strikes me that there is a glaring deficit of it in your case.
Because you do realise, I hope, that there is a somewhat stark difference in the populations of France and the USA, which makes looking at raw numbers a rather meaningless exercise (apart, of course, for reasons that might support a certain pre-conceived ideological positioning)?
Because, it we compare the two countries on a per capita basis - which we certainly should - then we find that over the period of the northern hemisphere's so-called "second wave" (so, say over the past two months), France has recorded 2,481 Covid cases per 100,000 citizens, which is a full 42% higher than the USA's 1,742 cases per 100k citizens.
(And that is despite the USA conducting almost 80% more tests per capita than France does!)
And in terms of the all-important death counts, France's deaths per 100k is 29.1, a whopping 67% higher than the USA's 17.4 deaths per 100k
For your fuller edification, here follows the relevant input data, sourced from Worldometer:
PS. For a yet more striking comparison, if one compares the mask-mandated, locking-down France with the non-masked, un-locked down Sweden, then the comparative figures have per capita cases running 83% higher in France than in Sweden and per capita deaths running an astonishing 4 times higher in France then in Sweden (no, not a typo error... it is four times higher):
So, if the game people want to play is attributing accountability for Covid outcomes to the leaders specific countries, then the person running France is doing an unambiguously far worse job than the person running the USA.
