title_body: How to order cappuccino without whipped cream in France?
upvoted_answer: You probably just hit upon a place that simply didn't know what a cappuccino was, or lacked the facilities to prepare one.
  
  French coffee culture is a little different from Italian, but usually a cappuccino is much like what you'd expect.
  
  I found this exhaustive guide to French coffee culture, and it notes:
  
  
    Capuccino – A French cappuccino is thirty per cent espresso coffee, fifty per cent milk, twenty per cent froth and no whipped cream. If the cafe you are in adds whipped cream then you must be in a cafe catering to tourists.
  
  
  So it sounds like you just had bad luck!