très jolie ?

S R Crockett wrote about descending from the train at Dumfries station "….you are conscious of a certain brisk elation, a verve and movement which is not provincial. In fact, there is something about the clean sharp-cut brilliance of Dumfries not unlike some of the newer French towns — or even one of the more frequented suburbs of Paris." 100+ years later, Dumfries is nothing like that.

Peebles, on the other hand, does sometimes feel French to me - the hills, the expansive lightness could be a town in the Luberon.