French Cherry bread with sugar top?

Hi,
A girlfriend of my lovely wife just returned from France and asked me to re-create a bread she fell in love with there.
Her description: (I never saw the bread.)
1) Baked on Sugar topping.
2) Loaf small, tall, not wide.
3) Soft crumb with Cherries inside.

Any ideas? Thanks ;-)
Mark

Mark,

I just went through the entire book, and I've come up empty. Hope you hear some good ideas. I'd like to try that one at home!

John

...Very much appreciated...Still looking myself. ;-)

If I were to guess.....and it was enjoyed in France......and it was presented as a sweeter bread......not large.......sounds like a brioche dough, or at least a dough with butter, a little egg, and some sugar. Next, ask your friend if she thinks the cherries were canned, fresh, or dried. ....and the sugar on top....would it have been a fondant(powdered sugar and water) that was poured over after baking, or a sugar and butter crust baked with the bread?

...She speaks French and said the bread was pronounced "Segenea".
It did have a baked-on sugary top, the Cherries were like traditional Panettone.
Thanks,
Mark