From his vineyards in Bordeaux wine country, Edouard le Grix de la Salle can sometimes smell the burning forests far away, a potent and unsettling harbinger of profound economic hardship for the region.
Vast wildfires have ravaged an area four times the size of Paris, driving 220,000 people from their homes and impacting key tourist attractions, threatening to severely sting France's already strained economy.
