Until about late 1943, there were significant differences between treatment of occupied lands in the est and in the East, and that included retaliation to partican attacks.

In France there were not (again, before late '43)the large scale shootings that happened in South east Europe and in the east. There were limited retaliation, shooting of hostages in response to the killing of German troops, but an often ignored historical reality was that limited retaliations against the civilian population were ALLOWED by the Hague conventions, as long as those hostages executed were male adults.

There were three main actual armed uprisings against German forces, all were brutally crushed and the resistors were killed or forced into labour, but there were no subsequent retaliations against civilians in those cases, unlike what was happening elsewhere in the German occupied world.

For the first two years of the German occupation of France, the Germans were under strict orders not to antagonise the population, to pay for goods instead of taking them and to act in an appropriate manner at all times. (Unless, of course, you were a jew or a communist) Of course it was never as rosy as those orders make it seem, but they were certainly a far cry from similar situation in the East.

After late 1943, troops who had sevred in the east started to get rotated through France and the West, and the excesses of the eastern Front started to spill over.