Fériol’s porch was known as the finest in the Village du Bois: a place where there was always music, so much so that people said the floorboards vibrated two houses away. At a time when you couldn’t always drink beer at home, Fériole, his father Yvet, and his grandfather Dominique, à Saindoux, secretly brewed their own in the cow barns — a bit like moonshine.

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Atotoy is a vocative onomatopoeia — the call used to bring cattle home. One story tells that one evening, as Fériole was calling his cows, one failed to return. A few days later, he received a message from the Dorchester penitentiary: the cow, like many others that roamed freely at the edge of the woods during the summer, had wandered off… and had been jailed, until Fériole came to pay to have her released.

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The title Snoro comes from a local expression — “mon p’tit snoro” — used to describe someone who is sly or mischievous… which, it seems, was a trait found in more than a few branches of the LeBlanc family.