I've noticed the French Air Force likes to fly there for exceedingly long lunch breaks
Can't help thinking they'd fly
anywhere for a solid lunch, and as has been mentioned before, many things in France come to a standstill between 12:00 and 15:00 more or less (rather more than less), aviation just one of them.
Come to think of it, my own national air defence force has (or at least used to have) training camps in Corsica too, there must be
something special about this place indeed.
BTW for
interesting variations on French language, anywhere South of Lyon will do, from Biarritz to Nizza, and let's not get started on Catal'an.