Long term traveling and camping with a bicycle is a lot easier and more enjoyable than you might think. Especially in France. It's easy and simple to be comfortable, clean and secure. You can rest well and eat well and you are in a beautiful part of the world. It's not hard. It's not survival living. You already know how to do most of it. Basically you simply pedal along without hurrying. No point in racing along when you came all this way just to be here. You have to drink lots of water, at least a bottle every hour. Bars in the little towns are always happy to supply water as well as anything else cold you might need to imbibe.Find a nice spot for lunch outside under a tree. Don't hurry. Drink plenty of liquids... Ride some more and visit a castle or put your feet in a stream. Enjoy the scenery. Talk to people. The greatest encounters happen by accident. The people (even the cars) respect you and your presence on a bicycle. Uncanny! Don't look at the computer, better yet don't bring one. Along about the middle or late afternoon you realize that where you are is where you want to be for the night. Most towns have a camp near them. Put up the tent and do the laundry. Listen to a little music, read a book and/or take a short nap in the shade. Maybe go talk to a neighbor. In the evening it's in to town for dinner at a nice outdoor restaurant then back to camp. A glass of wine at the next tent and bed down for the night with a little more quiet music. In the morning have coffee, pack the tent and do it all over again. Such a feeling of freedom and self sufficiency to travel under your own power and carry everything you need.

A camp is a small friendly community. In my absence neighbors have taken my laundry in when it started to rain. Loud radios are verboten!
Here's a quick tour of places where I've spent quiet nights.