Honestly Paris is overrated as hell. Yeah the Eiffel Tower exists but you've already seen it in every movie ever made. The real stuff is out in the countryside where you stumble into villages that time forgot and eat bread from bakeries older than your great-grandparents. Half the fun is just driving around and stopping wherever looks good instead of following some guidebook route everyone else takes.

The city tourist circuit gets old fast, you're just ticking boxes at that point. Walk up the Eiffel Tower, see the Mona Lisa behind bulletproof glass with 500 other people, eat a croissant, congratulations you did France. The actual memorable stuff happens when you ditch the plan and end up somewhere random. You can rent a car in France here: https://getrentacar.com/en-US/france . Tons of private owners and smaller outfits list their cars there, way more flexible than the big corporate rentals. Some will even meet you right when you land and hand over the keys so you're not wasting time at counters. For driving, Champagne region's loaded with vineyards you can visit, or Giverny has Monet's gardens and looks exactly like his paintings.