do most of french villages are from medieval times with houses of stones?

Question

I''ve cheked some pictures of french vilages and most villages looked verry old so I was currios if most french villages are like this or just a few .If u ever traveled to france or live there pls answer me.Thanks!

Answer 1

Most houses in France are no older than about 200 year, they look older because they used the same stone and the same style of building as the older buildings.
There are some villages that are older, and certainly some towns that have houses that are 500 years old, but newer houses have been build in the same style in many of them.

Most French villages I have been had mostly old and old looking houses, but sometimes you saw a house being build one year and the next it was plastered over and did look the same as the older houses in the village.

It is the line of the roof that betrays an old house from a new one. In new houses the lines of the roof are straight, in old houses they sag. Often it is rather subtle and hard to catch, buy once you have seen it a few times you see it.
But carefully restored houses often have a 'new' roof-line.

Answer 2

All of Europe is like that because it was civilized before the Americas.