There is no difference between cities and towns, because such statuses do not exist in France. Choosing city, town or village to name a French place is a statistical issue, not a status issue, since all places have the same status.
Flights to France can roughly be divided into three main categories - flights to Paris, flights to other major cities such as Toulouse and Nice, and flights to rural destinations.
Another key point to consider when searching for flights to France is that the effective distance between many major cities has been shrunk massively due to the development of the high-speed TGV train network.
France's profile received a considerable boost in 2006 - ironically enough, with the release of two of those American movies the country's cultural mavens have been so vocal in resisting.
In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined.