diff --git a/spacy/fr/__init__.py b/spacy/fr/__init__.py
index 974f882ca..9e4735a1f 100644
--- a/spacy/fr/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/fr/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from ..attrs import LANG
 
 from .language_data import *
 from .punctuation import TOKENIZER_INFIXES, TOKENIZER_SUFFIXES
-from .tokenizer_exceptions import get_tokenizer_exceptions, TOKEN_MATCH
 
 
 class FrenchDefaults(BaseDefaults):
@@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ class FrenchDefaults(BaseDefaults):
 
     @classmethod
     def create_tokenizer(cls, nlp=None):
-        cls.tokenizer_exceptions = get_tokenizer_exceptions()
+        cls.tokenizer_exceptions = TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS
         return super(FrenchDefaults, cls).create_tokenizer(nlp)
 
 
diff --git a/spacy/fr/language_data.py b/spacy/fr/language_data.py
index 7dbe4a02b..9d25644b7 100644
--- a/spacy/fr/language_data.py
+++ b/spacy/fr/language_data.py
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from .stop_words import STOP_WORDS
+from .tokenizer_exceptions import TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, TOKEN_MATCH
 
 
 STOP_WORDS = set(STOP_WORDS)
 
 
-__all__ = ["STOP_WORDS"]
+__all__ = ["STOP_WORDS", "TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS", "TOKEN_MATCH"]
diff --git a/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index 81a752755..342cb0e41 100644
--- a/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -214,4 +214,6 @@ REGULAR_EXP.append(_URL_PATTERN)
 
 TOKEN_MATCH = re.compile('|'.join('({})'.format(m) for m in REGULAR_EXP), re.IGNORECASE).match
 
-__all__ = ("get_tokenizer_exceptions", "TOKEN_MATCH")
+TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS = get_tokenizer_exceptions()
+
+__all__ = ["TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS", "TOKEN_MATCH"]