sentences:  In her 1980 novel "The Boy Who Followed Ripley", Patricia Highsmith described the town.as a "quiet village" where "[t]he little private houses, all close together in cobble-stoned lanes, looked like illustrations from children's books, cottages almost too small for man and wife to live in".Larchant is renowned for its first-class boulder climbing sites, l'Éléphant and la Dame Jouanne, in the Forêt de la Commanderie that surrounds it.