France must have some culture...let me start off a list
A mass market cultural export from France that many people (at least some of those who grew up in Canada) fondly rember is a television series called Thierry La Fronde, about a Robin Hood like heroic figure who lived in the period of conflict between England and France in the 14th century known as the Hundred Years' War.
... has existed all throughout human history, and probably pre-dates the emergence of effective medicine.
Quackery is still abundant today, herbal medicine[?], ...