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Everybody for ten leagues round knew old 'Toine, "Big 'Toine," 'Toine-Ma-Fine, Antoine Mâcheblé, also nicknamed Brulot -- the tavern-keeper of Tournevent.
He had given celebrity to that little hamlet, hidden in a wrinkle of the valley which sloped down to the sea -- a poor little peasant-village composed of ten Normandy cottages surrounded by ditches and trees.