"EA France was founded in Lyon in 1993. EA Publishing is made up of teams in charge of distribution of video games in the French market (including sales and marketing), as well as corporate functions, such as Finance, HR, Legal, Facilities and IT." (http://careers.ea.co...lyon-ea-france)
So, corporate stuff, maybe?
Possibly, but there's no BioWare presence in France and would you go there to talk to EA when their corporate stuff would be handled in NA? Maybe they're expanding... opening a new studio? Or maybe there's just something DA-related going on there - eg. scouting locations for photogrammetry?
Interestingly, one of the Frostbite Devs is in France too...
Ludovic Chabant @ludovicchabant
Hello France, you've got cool old stuff!