The diplomatic protest raised by Governor Jacob was, in fact, merely a defiant remark. France couldn't afford to lose face by begging the international community for assistance.
Losing battles and pinning hopes on international intervention is the behavior of losers, unbefitting of France's great nation status.
Of course, the main issue was that the protest was futile. With the four power brokers of the European continent brawling among themselves, one couldn't expect a group of minor countries, playing cheerleaders, to step in and interfere, could they?
War inevitably brings casualties. French civilian casualties were high, but those on the side of the Anti-French Alliance were far from minor.
In particular, the already occupied regions of Belgium and the Rhineland, though lacking specific statistics, one could be certain that civilian casualties numbered in the tens of thousands.
