maxmartin said:
Don't forget they usually only invite french team, while FDJ is pro now, maybe they will invite a non-french team, but who knows you don't want to put your fate on invitation list, anything can happen
True, ASO want French teams in the Tour, it's quite normal and having only Ag2R as a PRT team this year they gave all the wild cards to home teams but having Ag2R and FDJ next year (and taking into account that Saur's wild card for this year's Tour is not something that will absolutely happen in 2012) there will be some spots left for non-French teams at next year's Tour. So on the one hand the more French teams in the WT means the easier for a non-French team to get a Tour wild card.
But the flip side is that the most of French teams (apart from Ag2R first of all) care about the Tour and
only the Tour, they don't care about being a PRT but about the Tour invitation. Of course it's normal that for a French team the Tour is the main objective but the best example of how do they treat other races is a situation with Cofidis in 2010:
They (Cofidis) had started the season with numerous wins, mostly in second-tier races from January to June but then the Tour came. FDJ, Ag2R and BBox all got stage wins but Cofidis got nothing. I don't remember who gave that interview, possibly Eric Boyer (current general manager of Cofidis) but it was said something like: we feel sorry to be the only French team to not perform well in the Tour, the team was too active in the first part of season, it was a mistake,
it won't happen again...