French criminal law penalises revenge porn, namely the practice of taking revenge on a person by making sexually explicit content public with the clear intention of humiliating them, where that person has never consented to its dissemination.
The fact that violence is committed within a couple constitutes an aggravating circumstance before the criminal court. Such violence may be psychological, physical, sexual or economic.
False accusation, provided for and punishable under Article 226-10 of the French Criminal Code, is an offence defined as reporting, by any means and against a specific person, a fact likely to result in judicial, administrative or disciplinary sanctions, which the person making the report knows to be wholly or partially false, where the report is made to a judicial officer, an administrative or judicial police officer, an authority empowered to act upon it or refer it to the competent authority, or to the superiors or employer of the person accused.