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I don't think we've found many campsites that we wouldn't recommend to be honest.  Get yourself a good guide book - the Caravan Club Europe or La Guide Official and you'll be fine.

If you're away for two or three months then the ACSI Card will certainly be of use to you.  It offers some sites right up until the end of the third week in July and again from the end of the second week in August - so really only just four/five weeks when you can't use it.

You can just 'go as you please'.  In France you don't really need to plan ahead.  We often arrive, having booked our ferry to Calais, and then see where we should head by looking at weather forecasts.

Our first caravan tour was via Calais, then Burgundy (two sites), Provence (one site), Carcassonne (one site), Dordogne (one site) and back to Calais.  We didn't book anything in advance, and had no problems finding pitches.

Here's the route we use these days - which takes you down via Abbeville, Rouen, Chartres, Orleans, and then Vierzon for the Dordogne and south, or Clermont Ferrand for the Languedoc - and from there you could go onwards into Spain.  There are some overnight stop sites listed on there - and if you want longer stays I could recommend some good ones in many of the areas along that route. Dunkerque - Languedoc and how to avoid Rouen 1 and Rouen 2.  It's an easy, mostly non-toll route and there are stunning areas from Vierzon south - though north of that it's less than spectacular.  You could do a detour to the Loire area if you like Chateaux and wine, or into Burgundy if you like Chateaux and wine!  Or you could take an entirely different route altogether and go to the Alps or the west coast, or Alsace.  Once you're off the ferry then you can head in any direction you want - and we have been known to be on our way south to Italy, and then at the bottom of the Rhone Valley turn west instead of east and head to Spain instead!