Do you have any specific examples? I'm French, lived and travelled in a few countries and I don't see France being much different than any other country with long cultural history in that regard.
India was also colonized by the French. In fact, the French still held onto their colonies in India for several decades after the British left.
Anecdotal also, but I work internationally and with a lot of french people. The French groups would be the most vocal to complain about pretty much everything in their host country, claiming they cannot wait to go back to France to taste "Real bread", or "Real wine", etc etc.
But the only country where I could live is Italy, because they have "real food".
I really suffer with the local food when I'm abroad, and as far as I know, all my friends suffer as well. My wife is Russian but lives in France for many years and she has the same reaction with food in other countries (except Italy!). It's not arrogance, it's pain and a feeling of eating dirty things !
and which everyone in the country blissfully ignores.