Thanks for the responses last night! In the warm light of day (25 degrees here already!) it doesn't seem so bad. I'm sure we won't feel so blase (with an e acute) come bedtime.
This is what happened...
I was drinking a very nice local red wine with my dear old dad in the kitchen. DH was already asleep when I came to bed. As I lay down thinking about how peaceful it was and what a shame Brexit was and how cool it was that I've still got a few more months of maternity leave and congratulating myself on both dcs being temporarily asleep at the same time, I heard a noise.
flibbertyFLAP
In the moonlight I saw something whizzing around the ceiling above my head. 2 effing BATS.
It must have been karma for my smugness about the dc being asleep.
It took a while to fully awaken dh - he kept muttering about them flying out of the window on their own and how I should try to sleep.
Eventually he woke enough to panic. We found the biggest towel provided by the gite owners and cursed their meanness in not supplying bathsheets and we hid behind it.
At one point one flew into the bathroom where I was mostly hiding.
It took ages until they left but thankfully no one was bitten.
We'll be closing the window tonight!