When the rooster and Linen made Cogolin…

Because he refused to renounce his Christian faith, the Roman knight Torpes, Emperor Nero's steward, was beheaded. His head was kept in Pisa, while his body was placed in a little boat on the Arno River, with a dog and a rooster. Drifting with the wind and currents, the boat finally came aground in a small gulf port… that of Saint-Tropez .

The rooster flew over the land, coming to rest in a linen field belonging to our village, which thereafter became "coq au lin" - the rooster in the linen field.