I come from Auvergne where we have 5 cheeses with a Protected Designation of Origin (Cantal, Bleu d'Auvergne, Saint-Nectaire, Salers and Fourme d'Ambert).
If you know Charles de Gaulle, he had a perfect sentence about French people and cheeses: "How do you want to govern a country where it exists 258 different cheeses?" ;-)
And this number increased a lot since this quotation
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Best wishes
Alkiro