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Les Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon

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  • Alphonse Daudet
    In Alphonse Daudet: Life

    His novel Les Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon (1872; “The Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon”) was not well received, though its adventurous hero is now celebrated as a caricature of naïveté and boastfulness. His play L’Arlésienne was also a failure (although its 1885 revival was…

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