diff --git a/spacy/fr/__init__.py b/spacy/fr/__init__.py
index cd1c15dc2..9bb9a434d 100644
--- a/spacy/fr/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/fr/__init__.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ class FrenchDefaults(BaseDefaults):
     token_match = TOKEN_MATCH
 
 
+
     @classmethod
     def create_tokenizer(cls, nlp=None):
         cls.tokenizer_exceptions = get_tokenizer_exceptions()
diff --git a/spacy/tests/fr/test_lemmatization.py b/spacy/tests/fr/test_lemmatization.py
index e90115549..7b5779e18 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/fr/test_lemmatization.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/fr/test_lemmatization.py
@@ -28,4 +28,14 @@ def test_tokenizer_verb_noun(fr_tokenizer):
     tokens = fr_tokenizer(text)
     assert len(tokens) == 11
     assert tokens[1].lemma_ == "valider"
-    assert tokens[3].lemma_ == "notes"
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+    assert tokens[3].lemma_ == "notes"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail
+def test_tokenizer_verb_noun_insensitive(fr_tokenizer):
+    # This one is tricky because notes is a NOUN and can be a VERB
+    text = "Les Costaricaines et les costaricains sont jolies"
+    tokens = fr_tokenizer(text)
+    assert len(tokens) == 11
+    assert tokens[1].lemma_ == "costaricain"
+    assert tokens[4].lemma_ == "costaricain"