Daryl Dixon ended up in France due to a series of unfortunate events involving capture and forced transport. While on a mission to find Rick Grimes, Daryl was in Maine running low on fuel and agreed to capture walkers in exchange for gas. However, this deal was a trap set by a French militant group called Pouvoir Du Vivant ("Power of the Living"), led by Madame Marion Genet, who were experimenting on walkers
. Daryl was captured by this group and put on a cargo ship transporting walkers and prisoners from America to France to be used in their experiments. He managed to revolt, destroy some of their research, and escape by jumping off the ship, washing up on the shores of France where he was found and helped by a nun named Isabelle
. Thus, Daryl did not go to France by choice but was involuntarily taken there as part of this sinister operation. His presence in France thrust him into a conflict involving these French factions and the walker experiments, marking the beginning of his new journey in a foreign land
