In general, no, the French did NOT support Hitler. However, there were a pocket of French that believed they could not stop the Germans, so better to cooperate than to get beat. Among them were Henri' Petain, General of WWI, with honors. Gen. Petain became Marshall Petain and headed up the Nazi puppet government in Vichy, France. The French ran an elaborate underground reistance headed by Charles DeGaulle from England via radio.
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Because it was the french who wanted to cripple his precious Germany
In yesterday's French presidential elections the Daily Mail advised France to vote for the openly racist National Front, so I am not sure this question should be in the past tense.
He needed the professional army for his foreign policy ambitions.
The French and the English did not support the Confederacy during the Civil War. Instead, the countries decided to support the Union.
invaded Poland.