Several adorable small towns in France inspired "Beauty and the Beast," but only one offers travelers a storybook escape into ...

If you want to capture a sense of time and place and experience the ambiance of what life was like in the early settlements in France, there's no better place to do it than in its ancient towns.

Brimming with charming medieval hamlets, picturesque ancient towns perched on hillsides ... top vacation destination in France by wandering the streets of the old town, where you'll pass charming ...

Mazan in southern France. Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP Clancey also interviewed Diane Jeantet, a foreign correspondent now based in Paris, and they drove along the streets of the village.