I love France! However, while I have been to Paris many times, and last summer spent about a week on the Côte d'Azur and a few days exploring Avignon, Nimes, and Arles, my experience of the rest of France is limited to non-existent. I want to take a 10-14 day trip with my 13 year old in early June. We love fine dining, history (we did a ton of Ancient Rome stuff last summer), art museums, and the like. I love wine, but obviously can't be super wine-focused with my 13 year old. I'm not sure where to go next? My thing is that I prefer not to drive, or if it absolutely necessary, it must be somewhere that is easy to drive in and where I can park in a garage more than an inch and a half away from surrounding cars. It was a bit logistically challenging but last summer we did the South to Provence to Paris by TGV and within areas, buses/trains/taxis and where necessary, like the day we wanted to see all of Nimes, plus Uzes and the Pont du Gard, we hired a tour guide with a car.
We don't want to go somewhere that the main focus is the outdoors/hiking. I love pretty scenery, etc., but not as an end in and of itself. We don't do trips that are primarily hiking/beach.
Normandy/Loire Valley/Lyon ... I don't know, I would so appreciate some ideas. I feel like I have left this too long already. Also open to doing one of these areas and then TGV back to Provence, because we really only scratched the surface. There are actually places we missed in the South and I really want to go back, but I know that is pretty far away from some of these other places.