Frances 20 most beautiful villages…and then some

Every year in France there is a published list of the most beautiful villages, in the next coming weeks I’ll spotlight some of their choices and (my favorites), Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux are certainly wonderful cites, but the true France is the French deep countryside – la  France Profonde

Juliette Binoche and Julius Caesar can’t both be wrong about Flavigny (northern Burgundy). The village in the soft undulations of lush Burgundy was the filming site of ‘Chocolat,  and 2000 years earlier, Caesar chose the hilltop site as the base camp for his army. They say he brought the anis plant with him, and if he didn’t well, someone did, as the village has been producing anis-based sweets in the villages medieval monastery for centuries and still do. On the right day with some breezes, the appealing anis aromas drift over this ancient village.