In the Loire Valley, a celebrated historical theme park called Puy du Fou has become an unlikely battleground in France's deepest cultural argument: who owns the national story, and who gets to tell it. Drawing millions of visitors annually with grand spectacles of French civilization, the park is praised by some as a bridge to heritage and condemned by others as a stage for nationalist myth-making. The dispute is not merely about entertainment — it is about the ancient human need to belong to a story, and the power that comes with writing it.