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“Southern France” is pretty unspecific. You are talking about a 500k wide front.
In veeery broad terms:
To the very west, from Atlantic Ocean to Mediterranean Sea, you have the pretty rugged foothills of the Pyrennees.
Along the Mediterranean Coast, from the Spanish border almost up to the Italian border, comes a, say 100k wide stretch of rural farmland. Quite open, rolling hills, scattered small forests.
Behind that,  to the north and stretching west to east, is the Cevennes mountain range, say 60k wide. Not too high mountains, max about 1500m, but quite rugged and with dense forests.
At their east end, the Cevennes merge with the French Alps, which continue into Italy and Switzerland.
 Behind the coastal zone, traffic north is quite much channeled by a handful of river valleys, running north to south into the Mediterranean Sea.
All not too densely populated, but with many small, compact villages and towns, as well as some bigger cities. Ah, not to forget: Many pretty sturdy Chateaus scattered over the country.
So, no Bocage or hedge country, but difficult to navigate. I understand, after Operation Dragoon, large bodies of the German army escaped to the North, because the US followed only very cautiously, in constant fear of ambushes.

Don't worry. Currently it is probably more important to learn how to do it the other way round safely, anyway. 

Hehehechrrrrr.... Thanks for that, Warts!

Now, THAT‘s a nice one. I am surprised, that you remember this ancient movie. 😎

Now, THAT‘s a nice one. I am surprised, that you remember this ancient movie. 😎

The „Fulda Gap“ board game made me stop playing contemporary games. 

The „Fulda Gap“ board game made me stop playing contemporary games. 

Now we know what really happend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-pmKiFZTw

Nope, try to pronounce it this way:
Or rather like that?
 

If I recall what I read right, this guy even used his Panther once. Sometime in the 70's. Helping out after a snow storm or something.

Gents, I just uploaded my updated music splash collection to GaJ's. For CMBN it includes some "universal" songs, such as "Lilli Marleen" and "It's a long way to Tipperary" and some Bristish Regimental Marches. All together 20 songs to choose from. They play during scenario loading. Just copy the song you want to "Z" and rename to "music splash".

Gents, I just uploaded a new collection of splash music files to GaJ's. It includes a some "universal" German music, some Russian marches, some British Regimental marches and new for CMFI "Il Piave" and "Fratelli dell Italia". All together now 20 songs to choose from.
 
They play during scenario loading. Just copy the songs you want to "Z" and rename to "music splash".