Diablotine

 Basically, as long as you were married in France, under french law, yes, she can. However, if you were married after 1992, when you filled your certificate, you were supposed to chose the law you would use about division of property (Hague Convention). You should refer to a lawyer anyway.

I don't know if it can help or not, but we just sold our house to people from UK. As stated by the law, the buyer chose the notaire (in our case, he didn't speak english, so he was working with a profesional translator). The seller may have an advice from his own notaire, but he has to accept the buyer's notaire - anyway, the law being clear in the most of cases, it's hard to change anything [:)].

It seems it's much more about Myths/Superstitions about French (the Waterloo is a good one - like it) [:D]!