Sure, but it's also the rule and not the exception that a good L1 player will be good in another league.
Depends what you class as a good player I suppose. The top, top players in any of the better leagues can play anywhere and most likely cut it.
But the average to good players coming out of France there are probably more failures than successes in recent years in EPL so the idea that most come across and become stars is way off.
This season players like Boufal, Mendy and Ndong have gone for decent money and none of them have been great. In past Newcastle and Villa tried to build teams from French league and signed a list of mainly duds that helped them to see relegation.