Hello gnome19 I understood where your question was coming from and even if that's not much related to my initial comment about the thread, that's quite an interesting (and broad) question and I could talk hours about it. I'll try to make it short.

First and before anything, I think the biggest part of the society has quite ambivalent ideas on freedom of religion, probably due to our "1905" law on the separation of church(es) and state. For 100 years the families have learnt to let their religion at home and not to display it. Then immigrants from everywhere have a hard time understanding or adapting, so a normal reaction from a French to seeing a veiled lady is somewhere between: "may she look the way she wants" and "can't she just dress like anybody" (and I'm not even talking about "is she forced by her husband or father to wear that"). That makes the freedom of religion a complicated one: you don't get problems for following a religion but for displaying it (so still because of your religion, really). I hope you can grasp this particular shape of french society.

Now I think that the events in Toulouse shook and shocked the country, who then wanted to reconcile/reunite: see the big gatherings that happened in memory of the victims. It's still a bit early to observe but the polls at one month of the presidential election show an interesting trend: the far-right (hate-based speech) decreasing while the far-left (unification-based speech) increasing.

So all in all tolerance and terrorism have really different paths in France, and hopefully the society remains clever enough to understand the distinction.