I agree with @railang on the only useful 2 points being those Angela’s mentioned above.
They dodged the question as to with these delays to swap to French driving licence is your expired British licence+attestation of having applied for swap, valid in other European countries. The answer was “that’s for them (any other EU country you might need to drive in) to decide. A mighty fudge that basically hung everyone with an expired British licence out to dry.
IME car hire companies in Europe are demanding about licences being in date. Plus IME French organisations always refused an expired document as identification even if its purpose was nothing to do with driving, say, if it was a licence being produced for something else. Even if it had a photo and your address.
On the D737 this seemed almost like new information to them and there was no mention about people also being asked for birth certificates. They didn:t mention the DVLA website as another wsy of requesting one.
On the silly new requirement for fully vaccinated people entering the UK from France having to quarantine, it was clear our UK officials based in France also know it’s rubbish but have an intractable government to represent. I am certain lots of the questions mentioned the UK took data only applying only to a small French Overseas Territory 8000 km away from the mainland. But the team dodged it when they knew they had questions asked today mentioning this.
Without prompting, the team went out of their way to mention that France now accepts the UK NHS vacconation proofs and they were hopeful for the future for reciprocal recognition. So clearly there is something that might change the UK’s refusal to recognise the combined vaccination certificate of 22 countries ie the EU pass in the pipeline.
I felt the whole thing was addressed to people who hadn’t yet applied for WA CdS and driving licence swaps. I would like to see more emphasis next time on who to contact when you’ve done those things and not hearing back not just promises to put who to call or email on chat.
Also other than Philippa who tends to cover different situations in her answers to the same question, several of the other answers did not cover all the likely situations (eg posted worker was covered for which country provides your EHIC but frontier worker (the flip side situation) was not.
Let’s hope the Embassy Team get a restorative break in August and come back renewed in September to give us “who in France and at the Embassy/Comsulate can we contact when we struggle with delays on essential things we are compelled to do in France” as the 1st October deadline to receive CdS rapidly approaches.