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Perhaps I'm fantasising and he is no more than an average baker from another commune

The new boulangerie has created a frisson way beyond the simple appreciation of its tempting tartes and perfectly crisp baguettes.

It's not just that the shop itself has a saucy 'Allo, 'Allo feeling with its little wrought-iron tables and chairs, and hand-written descriptions in manly black script. Nor the fact that it opened without fanfare and did not find itself the focus of seething jealousy and open warfare when, as previously recounted, the formidable Madame Boulanger daubed the windows with graffiti telling the new man to stuff his yeast and run.

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