Cucugnan (France)

Although Cucugnan is a picturesque, small town in the south-east of France, it’s most well-known, according to Dominique, for the Priest of Cucugnan, a story written by Alphonse Daudet and studied by all French schoolchildren. In the story, the Priest is upset that his parishioners aren’t attending mass often enough, so he recounts a dream in which he travels to Heaven and Purgatory, but doesn’t find any of his parishioners there. This is because they’re all in Hell, he recounts, hoping to scare them back into faithful attendance. Shocking!