Chassignolles

Lost at a head-clearing elevation of 3,000 feet in the Livradois-Forez, France ' s largest national park, 100 miles southwest of Lyons, Chassignolles invites long, extravagantly lazy days spent communing with cows, admiring the accidental land art created by a farmer with some hay bales, and stopping to smell the rockroses that fringe the lanes.