When France industrialized, why did its factories rely more on water power than steam power?

Until the 1830s, waterpower remained the preferred source of power for many manufacturers (not only in France); early steam engines had proven relatively ineffective. France is much larger than England and has more rivers. Until well into the 1860s, French industrial enterprises relied mainly on water power and were built primarily in the countryside, which provided easy access to rivers and wood. Steam engines depend on the stable supply of inexpensive coal from mining. In the early nineteenth century, England had large deposits of coal and a well-developed mining industry as well as an extensive framework of canals to deliver coal to industrial consumers. France was not able to expand its coal industry until after 1870. Moreover, coal delivery was more difficult in France, with longer distances, until the emergence of railroads.
Handloom weaving and other pre-industrial crafts persisted in France for longer than in England, and the heavy industry and steel production required for steam-engine manufacturing grew slowly until the railroad boom of the mid-nineteenth century. Creation of a comprehensive railroad network and the development of coal mining after 1870 gradually eliminated the obstacles to the adoption of steam power in France.