French is considerd being a boring opening, which tend to be drawish, according to chess.coms game explorer 35.3% of the games beginning with 1. e4 e6 ends in a draw.
I hope these game below can show that even grand masters can lose against the French:
Garry Kasparov:
vs Viswanathan Anand: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018264
vs Alexey Dreev: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1039605
vs Vassily Ivanchuk: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060586
Anatoly Karpov:
vs J Cox: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068296
vs Simen Agdestein: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068840
Vassily Ivanchuk:
vs Magnus Carlsen: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1641014
vs W So: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1565184
vs Dreev: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1039665
Viswanathan Anand:
vs Nigel Short: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018193
vs Dreev: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018620
vs M Sisniega: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1017993
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