I don't think it's too much, actually it seemed to fit his character ^,^ Like you said it will make it where he has more ground to cover, but it's also the perfect way to get Belle to make a deal with him. Because she will make a deal with him just to make him stop from stabbing her friend.

I know a good little bit of French but I don't know how to spell a lot of it so I use google translate to help me spell it ^,^ Oh that would be awesome! I've never had a character talk French back to one of my French characters ^.^