French Toast with Mixed Berries

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2 cups half-and-half or milk

Three 3-inch cinnamon sticks, broken up into pieces

6 large eggs

Pinch freshly grated nutmeg

3/4 teaspoon sugar

1 baguette (French bread), about 2 feet long

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Confectioners' sugar

Marinated Berries, recipe follows

Marinated Berries

1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, and seeds scraped out with a knife and reserved

Grated zest of 1/2 lemon 

Grated zest of 1/2 orange

1 cup water

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice

1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

1/2 pint raspberries

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 pint blueberries, rinsed

1/2 pint strawberries, rinsed, tops trimmed, halved or quartered, if large