Help for a book? (France.... 1800's...etc)

Question

Ok....

So I'm wokring on a book....

and I want to do a part about like France or something....

but I want it to seem to the reader that the character was really there in like the late 1700's/early 1800's and then again in the late 1800's....

so like.... what are some of the smaller towns that nobody's heard of (Like...everyones heard of Paris)

and like..what was there to do..... how were the people dress.... etc...

something like....in these Vampire movies/books and such when they describe where they lived like 100 or more years ago....

I persoanlly have never been to France.... so hwo can I make it sound like the character has?

Answer 1

read Honoré de Balzac, he should help you out in glorious fasion. try "la fille aux yeux d'or"