>>60767618
You don't know the market and wrongly assume that the shit ROI of Paris is true for all of France.
Paris is special because the price of renting is limited by law while the price of buying isn't, so a 200k house will net you just 8k per year before tax if you're lucky.
In other parts of France you'll get a much better ROI. The counterpart of course is that the value of your goods won't appreciate as much with time, but they will be much better at generating a cash-flow, so you can easily make 80k a year before taxes with 800k of capital.
And that's just if you limit yourself to basic bitch non-risky investing, I you have balls and/or connections and/or are ready to put in some work you can turn these 800k into a business worth several millions with relative ease.