Add rewrite rule to call front-page.php?

As I pointed in my comment, in the rewrite rule there, change ?&p=2 to ?page_id=2. Because p is used for querying a Post (i.e. post of the post type). So for Pages (i.e. post of the page type), use page_id.

To prevent http://examplesite.com/fr/ from being redirected to http://examplesite.com/, you can cancel (the) canonical redirect, like this:

add_action( 'template_redirect', function(){
    if ( is_front_page() ) {
        remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical' );
    }
}, 0 );

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