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If you are one of the millions who made Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See one of the most-watched shows on the streamer this month, you will have been treated to some lush historic backdrops for the World War II romance.
Most of the outdoor scenes — rain-splashed cobbled streets, gothic crème de menthe-colored doorways and the obligatory wood-paneled sweet shop — were filmed in the southern French town of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, not the northern port of town St. Malo, where the story is set.