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He was known for thirty miles round was father Toine -- fat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandy -- the innkeeper of Tournevent.
It was he who had made famous this hamlet buried in a niche in the valley that led down to the sea, a poor little peasants' hamlet consisting of ten Norman cottages surrounded by ditches and trees.