France is awesome, I went to alot of the places you went to when I was there last month with the wife. Except we visited some castle in the Loire region, Chambord, Cheverny, Azay-Le-Rideau and Chenonceau...
I got lucky cause when I went to Versaille, it was on a Sunday and all the fountains in the garden were on, it was freakin stunning.
My favorite part about france is that for 2-3 Euros you can get an endless variety of excellent wines, and paté forestier are like .85E per pound. Aside from housing, the cost of life over there is actually lower than here, if you consider they make the same salary we do, but in Euros.
Nice pics, you certainly went to the right places.
Oh yeah, and, Renault Megane FTW! We had a 2009 1.5HDI Megane for a week and it was an awesome car!