Bardot's St Tropez

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: July 27, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Many moons ago, way back in AD 68, when life was lived at nature's pace and sleepy villages lay between sea and hills, the Gallo- Grecian city of Heraclea became St Torpes. One storm-tossed day, with the Mistral howling through the town's tiny lanes, the inhabitants saw a drifting boat on which lay a dog, a cockerel and a decapitated man.

This strange crew had come straight from Genoa or Pisa, tugged by currents. The battered ship, called the Torpes, lent its name to the village. The cockerel flew off into a nearby field of flax - lin in French - and the flaxen coq became Cagolin. The dog ...

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