Some universities and engineering schools in France are teaching Python or using Python in some classes. The one I attended (Télécom Bretagne) does. Here is, for instance, a course about Sage and Python: http://formations.telecom-bretagne.eu/fad/course/view.php?id...

Here is a job offer by a research laboratory: http://fr.lolix.org/search/offre/offre.php?id=15660

The French Python association has a Web page with lots of job offers too: http://www.afpy.org/jobs