Hygienic circumcision in France

I was surprised, when moving to the US, that circumcision of newborns, on grounds of hygiene, was so widespread. Indeed, I had never heard about people getting circumcised in France just for hygiene (without any kind of religious/cultural background, without any kind of medical reason), let alone having their kids cut for that reason. I knew, however, that medical circumcision had been liberally applied (depending on the physician, a foreskin that could not be fully retracted at age 6, sometimes even at age 3, resulted in advice to circumcise).

Much later I read vaguely that there had been a fashion of hygienic circumcision in the 1970s, but had no confirmation of that.

Lately, an acquaintance of mine told me this very surprising thing: in her family, it was a tradition to circumcise all males as infants, for cleanliness. Her family is neither Muslim nor Jewish, nor of British/American origin.