Farce about sending ground troops: Macron probably wanted to push Scholz to take a tougher course on Ukraine. He was one of the first proponents of Ukraine's possible accession to the EU and NATO's military aid.
And after France paid significantly less for military aid in the first two years of the war, he changed his position. However, as the Wall Street Journal shows, as Macron's position on the Ukraine war changed over the course of the conflict, so did his position on sending troops to Ukraine.