The great thing is that, since you have them everywhere, you can go on visiting one great castel and one great church. Then do something else.
See the giant mechanical elephant in Nantes, hire a guide for "la vallée des merveilles" in the Mercantour park, play petanque and try pastis with old persons in Marseilles, kayak in "les gorges du verdon", bath naked in Saint Selon or break a leg in a the snow of Auron.
It's a really cool country once you forget the stereotypes of food, sex and strikes. I mean, I do have food while having sex during strikes, but frankly you can do that anywhere.
> I mean, I do have food while having sex during strikes, but frankly you can do that anywhere.
Bonus points for irony! Of course, where I live the strikes happen almost never, not to mention my partner‘s apparent willingness for sex as „almost never“ too.
Not everyone comes from a land with "boring" castles everywhere.