Wensleydale
Don't be sorry - remember that in Medieval times it was the Minstrels whose songs related events to the populace who had no other means of learning about such things.
Baron rouge
It was here in this tiny hamlet (from which I take my user name) that the English Army had its foremost outpost in SW France in the 13th Century, during the Hundred Years War . That information comes from the Gentleman, a retired Presidential Chief of Staff, who owns the large fortified house on the entrance to the Hamlet. Were it not for the English this hamlet would be dead and derelict - the hamlet has been protected from further development.
It is not the French who have bought and renovated property in this area and kept alive many communes.