France is generally considered to be one of the oldest liberal democracies in Europe. However, a decrease in trust in political institutions is highlighted in the studies on French political opinion. What we suggest here is to provide an overview of the current state of French democracy, through a cross-time and comparative perspective. Thanks to the mobilization of the synthetical index of democratization provided by V-Dem (the electoral democracy index), we will interpret the ongoing evolution of France’s institutional-political situation: what are the trends and dynamics which characterized French democracy, in the short- and long-term perspectives? In addition, we will analyze the state of French democracy by mobilizing other V-Dem indexes focusing on specific dimensions and/or kinds of democracy (the liberal, participatory, deliberative and egalitarian component indexes). The French case will also be studied in comparison with six other European countries—Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Poland.