I´m french and Gisele is very much appreciated in France. She is in sooooo many ad campaigns in the streets, in many magazine covers: Elle, Vogue and many local magazines. She also sells her line of shoes and is often invited on local tv morning news shows and at night. Karl also loved Gisele very much and she has a LOT of Vogue Paris covers so she fits with the French sophisticated vibe yet she has that vivacious personality and big hair and all. I now live in Spain but come back to France every summer and Gisele is always present somewhere: in local magazines, in shopping malls or displays and I remember her Vogue eyewear campaigns were literally everywhereeeee. In my city it was like she was a politician or something ahahaah.
However these covers could have been much better and could they also try to do something else with her. Like Naomi or Christy: editors need to play with their images and not just style them the exact same way over and over again.