When you say the "French view" do you mean the way Wellington is seen in French historiography, by historians, or by common French people ?

I can't answer for the former right now, because it would be too long and I don't have enough time, (I'll try when I get home) but I can make a short answer for the later.

You assume that either French people would praise the man who has stopped Napoleon or wouldn't praise him but only because he was lucky in defeating Napoleon, so he wouldn't be deserving of the praise. So, with the way your question is worded, it seems that the only way to see Napoleon is in a bad light, even for French people.

But what do you assume such a thing ?

You have to understand that your British view of Napoleon and Waterloo are just that, British view of Napoleon and Waterloo, and you can't just project that view on other cultures and countries, especially France.

I don't like to make such generalities, but Napoleon Bonaparte has been slandered non stop for 200 years in British culture. Even today, the way the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleonic Wars are taught in British schools is nothing short of incredibly dishonest and, for a Frenchman like me, quite shocking.

Obviously, in higher education it's not the case anymore and the teaching of theses topics in British universities is excellent, and you have nowadays plenty of fantastic British historians specialist of Napoleon. But even for professionals historians, historically you have to wait a really, really long time to see appear honest British historians on the matter.

So maybe you should ask yourself if the assumptions that form the basis of your question are correct to begin with.

From a French perspective Napoleon Bonaparte is seen in a really positive light. He's not venerated like the Founding Father/the Framers of the Constitution can be in the USA, but still he's seen really positively.

Enemies of Napoleon, so including Wellington, Nelson, etc. are virtually unkown by the public in France. So common French people don't really think anything of Wellington.

However, unlike again most British people, French people don't see Waterloo as "French VS British" battle, but as a "French VS Everyone" battle, which is closer to reality. So they don't see it as a Britith victory, but as a european victory against Napoleon.

Waterloo is seen as one of the lowest point of French history, the beginning of the End for France, passing from the most important and most powerful nation of the time to the perpetual second, even third, power in Europe after Britain and/or Germany.

Waterloo is such a traumatism that the word "Waterloo" itself has become synonymous with defeat or failure in the French language, and is commonly used today that way, to describe the French team losing very badly in a sporting event for instance. Same goes with "Berezina"

What I wrote is what the general public, the common man in France think of Waterloo, Napoleon and Wellington, and doesn't concern French historians and French historiography.