Visit These Underrated French Cities

France is the world’s most visited country. While roughly the size of Texas, with a wealth of diverse regions, languages, and cheeses (one for every day of the year), many of those visitors venture little further than Paris and neighboring Versailles.

As France reopens to American travelers, opportunity exists to see the country without the normal tourist crush, and that will be even more pronounced in some of the country’s fantastic cities outside of the capital. Without the normal inflow of travelers, they’re as French as they’ve ever been, and they’re waiting to be discovered.