How long was your stopover?

If you actually spent a night in Paris, then this of course would be no issue.

Given the greater cost of tickets that involve connecting from long-haul to long-haul at Paris - and given the airline's willingness to attract such customers by allowing free stopovers - having baggage shortchecked on a long-haul connecting itinerary will not raise the same alarm bells as it would when the passenger requesting shortchecking is booked on an additional shorthaul sector.

We all know that airlines charge less for indirect routings than they do for direct flights. If you are booked to travel to say, Hamburg, but you ask to have your bag delivered in Paris, it is highly likely that you never wanted to travel to Hamburg, and therefore do not qualify for the discount that Air France offers to customers travelling to/from Germany - instead, you should have paid the "direct" fare for Paris. You have effectively cheated Air France out of an amount that could run to the hundreds of Euro.

If you are booked to travel to Tokyo, but you ask to have your bag delivered in Paris, then even if you don't show up for that Tokyo flight (which you then lose, together with any further sectors), then you are throwing away a substantial portion of your booked travel, and you are unlikely to have "undercut" what Air France would have asked you to pay had you initially bought a ticket just to/from Paris. As such, there is no real indication here that your goal was to "game" Air France and pay a reduced fare.