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8 1 il allait se passer: 'there was going to happen'; cf. note to 4 23. quelque chose de grand: 'something great'; note the de Cf. quelque chose d'informe 35 21, quelque chose de noir 45 18. 8 6 bis: Latin, 'twice, indicating that a thing is to be repeated. 8 9 A vous, Tartarin: 'your turn, Tartarin! 8 13 en bon Méridional: 'like a true Southerner'; cf. note to 5 20.
Daudet himself confessed that the work had been written too soon and with too little reflection. "I wish I had waited," he said; "something good might have been written on my youth". "Tartarin de Tarascon" was written in 1869. Success and happiness had crowned Daudet's efforts.
The picture I was doing for the Salon is not yet finished. You may well understand that I can have no pleasure in sending something that is not entirely good, at least that is as good as I may do. I am flattered by the admiration of B.... you find her intelligent; she is so, but when you know her better you will see that the first days she looks more that she is in reality.
If one or two can do something of a fisherwoman, six hundred and seventy three produce... Art is something more than the fashion to paint anything en plein air... Bastien himself thinks so . As to the brother's portrait it is not finished, we wait the return from the country of Miss F... Now, my grand tableau is a secret, of course.
There was in him something of the Parisian Street gamin and something of the Oriental woman." These simple poems are charming in their freshness and naïveté, and established Daudet's reputation as a writer of light verse. The whole volume, and especially "Les Prunes," attracted the attention of the Empress Eugénie.
Daudet's love for his native land was intense. Its images were ever present to him; its poetry haunted him throughout his life. He urged young men ambitious of literary laurels to remain in their native provinces, to draw their inspiration from the soil, confident that something great and beautiful would result. Why did he not take for himself the counsel he so incessantly offered to others?
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