Synonymic resources for French are still limited in scope, quality and/or availability.
the French WordNet (Frewn) created within the EuroWordNet project [16] has limited scope (3 777 verbs and 14 618 nouns vs. 7 384 verbs and 42 849 nouns in the morphological lexicon for French Morphalou) and has not been widely used mainly due to licensing issues.