What is the main setting in the short story, Tyres?

The narrator and his family live in a remote French village. The surrounding area is inhabited by farms and "stony fields (396). Before the advent of WWII, the village is quiet and the roads surrounding the narrator's home are not heavily trafficked. Indeed, the narrator defines the region as "chestnut country" and remarks that the area is primarily inhabited by "mostly bats and ruined walls, and a simple church" (397). Because the village is so remote, the narrator convinces himself that the war will not affect him or his family. He therefore chooses to focus on the beauty of his natural surroundings in order to distance himself from the violence that is increasingly encroaching upon his idyllic village life.