Possible Clues:

• Bride's guy, in France?
• What a compact often lacks
• Space often lacking on a plane!
• In which to stretch the French man about to be married
• Lounge, perhaps, after stage, which airline passengers need
• Space to stretch
• Space needed to avoid cramped position
• Space the Parisian honeymooner demanded
• Space restricted in aircraft as North African set returned
• * It's not French for "husband-to-be"