The Little Ice Age in France In 1389, the Lozère region in southern France was hit with unprecedented snowfall. A local scribe described the fallout: “In January, February and March, the snowfalls in Lozère were so great that they destroyed many farmsteads and that many people died, because their houses fell down on them. Other people died of cold, others of hunger, because snowfalls had lasted so much longer than usual that people had run out of provisions.” CLICK image.