There is no denying that eventually the Brits were far more proficient at bombing area targets than the Germans. Due not in the last place to Germany loosing control of its own skies. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became less restrictive and increasingly targeted industrial sites and eventually, civilian areas.
I'm not surprised, since industies of occupied countries were pressed into service for the German war effort. German-occupied France contained a number of important targets that attracted the attention of the British, and later American bombing.
Strategic bombing during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Even the Free French themselves bombed France, if using different methods.
Strategic bombing during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So there was bombing of French cities. It likely never came to massed bombings due to the quickness of the collaps of France; there was no moral or will to resist that needed to be broken. Unlike e.g. the situation in the Netherlands.
"the allies’ unexpectedly sudden collapse in France in 1940"
"Two things above all ensured that all the early attempts at strategic bombing (whether by the Germans, the British or the hopelessly ill-equipped Italians) were far less effective than anyone had expected.
The first was the near impossibility, given the technology then available, of landing a meaningful concentration of bombs near any target other than a large city; in 1941 only one in ten Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers got within five miles of their targets in the Ruhr valley.":
http://www.economist.com/news/books...ampaign-europe-during-second-world-war-costly
That sums it up nicely.
Yes, it would seem logical that this is the case. It was no doubt conducted with the ok of the Free French government in exile, whose military also flew missions over France. And?
Here too, I refer to The Economist but now because it summarizes very well how one should view the policies set forth by Harris. What is still surprising, in retrospect, is how successful combatant air forces were in commanding valuable resources while their achievements (i.e. effectiveness) were so hard to quantify.
See this article from that propaganda journal The Economist.
http://www.economist.com/news/books...ampaign-europe-during-second-world-war-costly
So? What is your point?
You can't win a war without attacking the enemy where it hurts. The people in occupied countries took it on the chin from allies if necessary, in my own country too. Bitter, but that's the reality of war. In any war, peacetime morals and restraints go out the window for some (but not all). That does not make it policy or organized however.