16 bewitching destinations in France to visit in your lifetime

"Every man has two countries – his own and France." These words were supposedly spoken by Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and ardent Francophile. Whether apocryphal or not, there is surely a kernel of truth to these words, since no place on earth would seem to inspire travellers in the way France does: the streetlights and cobblestones of Paris, the snow-capped Alps, the sun-kissed Riviera, the chateau-strewn banks of the Loire – each has a lustre that lures writers,...