Thanks to Lucie Lecomte for sending the link to this FranceInfo.fr report:
The flu epidemic this year is "more intense" than usual. Excerpt, Google-translated from French:
More than half a million people in consultation for the flu last week, according to figures from the Institute of Health Surveillance. Epidemic this winter is particularly long. This is the eighth week, and a crisis was open to the Public Assistance Hospitals of Paris, to manage the increase in hospitalizations.
But click through to see the map, which makes the point very dramatically.