Mende, France, in photos

This pretty French valley town is the setting for my 2024 book about the unsolved mystery of the Beast of Gevaudan. So, of course, at the end of my nine-day hike through the region, I had to spend a little time exploring the nooks and crannies, hills and riverside paths, museums and tucked-away creperies of the town of Mende. 

This is what that exploration looked like.