Bitcoin has the official status of money in France now as the verdict was made by the Commercial Court of Nanterre. The court considers bitcoin as a fungible intangible asset, which is legal as an interchangeable good.
Hubert de Vauplane, a lawyer from Kramer & Levin says that this decision now permits Bitcoin to be legally used as money. I have always said that any country that is loosing out on Cryptocurrency might just loose out forever as blockchain and cryptocurrecy have come to change Money around the globe.