13 entries for 2017's Village préféré des Français

The 13 French communes competing for this year's 'Village préféré des Français' contest have been revealed.

Entries include the one of the oldest villages in Corsica, the Alsace birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, a popular venue for artists in Yvelines and a literary enclave in the Loire-Atlantique.

Now in its sixth year, the popular France 2 programme is presented, as usual, by Stéphane Bern, who looks at the heritage, gastronomy, crafts and conviviality that mark out each of the villages, as they compete for the title won last year by Rochefort-en-Terre - the second time in consecutive years that the competition was won by a village in Brittany

Here are images from the 13 competing venues - which one would get your vote?:

Piriac-sur-Mer, Loire-Atlantique

Bèze, Côte-d'Or

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme

Lourmarin, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Moncontour, Côtes-d'Armor

Lagrasse, Aude

La Roque-Gageac, Dordogne

Gargilesse-Dampierre, Indre

Sant’Antonino, Corsica

Kaysersberg, Alsace

Bellême, Orne

La Garde-Adhémar, Drôme

Montchauvet, Yvelines