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Is this the decision of the better Daudet? is it not a Parisian Daudet, whose sympathy for his native land has been warped by the play of Parisian mockery on his sensitive, easily convinced nature? It is precisely in "Numa Roumestan," where he is making his most complete study of the character of the southerner, that Daudet is most pessimistic.
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.
Le Quesnoy, the worthy northerner, deceives his wife as does Numa, the lying southerner. The spirit of the novel is epitomized in such sentiments as "Joie de rue, douleur de maison," "Au nord au midi tous pareils, traîtres et parjures," "Grand homme pour tout le monde excepté pour sa femme." A decided pessimism pervades the great novels. Optimistic Daudet is frequently said to be.
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