Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
Lieut. Leroux and four other gendarmes drove to Bazouges, where Leroux and his sergeant climbed up the church bell tower. There they found a bicycle repairman and a carriagemaker smoking their pipes and swinging the clapper against the big bell...
...hundred and fifty long steps above the vaulted vestibule of Memorial Hall, perched among the innumerable beams and cables of the inside of the tower, is a small shack papered with ancient Varga calendars...
...inside of the actual tower up above the bleak rooms resembles the set for an old Douglas Fairbanks classic. Jimmy has to poke his way gingerly along the shaky scaffordings and on the creaky stairs...
...Stairs broke down once 14 years ago," Jimmy relates. "But they're O.K. now." One fight above the partly open area of the bell tower stands the widow's walk, strewn with dead pigeons...