If your French had been a little more advanced, one option would be a seasonal job working for the tourist office in a ski resort. My daughter (during a year off prior to uni in the UK where she was to study French and tourism) worked from the first week of December to end April in Bourg St Maurice Les Arcs doing this. Pay was very basic though.
Although there are lots of English speaking enquiries doing a job like this, somewhere around 60% of the contacts - written and spoken, face to face and on the phone - were in French. It was a rude introduction to working at a 'proper' job, even for someone whose French was pretty good having spent many months in a French-speaking environment over previous years. My daughter struggled at first, especially being stuck in a small office on her own and being pretty much left to get on with it. No training at all, and she knew next to nothing about the town and resort. So I would say that without very good French it would be pretty impossible.
I suppose the next option would be to try to get a job for a season working in the hotel/restaurant industry. Hard work, terrible pay, but at least you would (should) come out of it with good enough French to apply for a better job next time around...
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