Resources

 

  • Extensive website of the regional Tourist Office Dieulefit-Bourdeaux, available in different languages. Well worth exploring. 
  • The French documentary series “Des racines et des ailes” (“Roots and Wings”) broadcasted an almost 2-hour special on the Drôme Provençale, and even if you do not speak French, do let yourself be charmed by the beautiful images.
  • A Tripadvisor list of things to do in the Drôme Provençale, categorized by type of attraction. 
  • The Edict of Nantes, signed on 13 April 1598, by King Henry IV of France, granted the French Calvinist Protestants (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was essentially Catholic. But in 1685, an era of persecution began after the King of France, Louis XIV, revoked the Edict. 200.000 Huguenots fled to Protestant countries in Europe. The French trail of the Huguenots that starts in  Le Poët Laval consists of some 360 km of paths all the way to the Swiss border in Chancy.