Circuit Terre de Garonne

Once upon a time in Marmande, Ferline was the daughter of a rich bourgeois, young, beautiful and wise. Peyrot Bory, of modest extraction, was dying of love for her, but did not dare to admit it to her. After a visit to the West Indies and New Grenada, he brought back in his luggage a pouch in which were some strange flat seeds, dark grey. Back in Marmande, he sowed the famous seeds in a sunny corner of his father's garden. At the beginning of the summer, clusters of magnificent red fruits appeared, round and smooth. Every morning, he picked a few of them and put them in a small wicker basket that he left on the windowsill of the beautiful house...