Even though I'm French, I've never seen anybody like that here :p To much stereotypical, maybe ?
The beret and the hair are to close in colour and contrast, make his hair brighter maybe?
And in French we use spaces between letters and double punctuation. You should write
C'est la vie !
:p
Good idea animating a skeleton first, a lot of people try to animate the sprite itself, and ends up just moving parts around. Keep up!