Angelique informed him that a brave sailor on leave from his torpedo boat was in the habit of visiting the wine shop every evening.
He ought to know something of the sea.

A meeting was arranged by Angelique between Hegisippe, Septimus and the brave sailor, much to Emmy's skeptical amusement; and the brave sailor, after absorbing prodigious quantities of alcohol and reviewing all the places on the earth's coastline from Yokohama to Paris-Plage, declared that the veritable Eden by the Sea was none other than his native village of Hottetot-sur-Mer.

He made a plan of it on the table, two square packets of tobacco representing the cliffs, a pipe stem the road leading up the gorge, some tobacco dust the beach, and some coffee slops applied with the finger the English Channel.
Septimus came back to Emmy.

"I have found the place.

It is Hottetot-sur-Mer.