This is a quick reply. Need to go to bed as I'm off on a trip early tomorrow, but didn't want you to think I was avoiding replying. Hulda Clark is not viewed as a researcher, since none of her work has EVER been peer reviewed, which (for obvious reasons)is a universally accepted requirement of research.
I am not, incidentally, just speaking of French views, but Italian, German and Dutch also.
Happy to enlarge when I return.