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Updated: May 25, 2025
When he saw himself alone in the little white tombhouse, betrayed, robbed, abandoned in the heart of savage Algeria, with a one-humped camel and some pocket-money as all his resources, then did the representative of Tarascon for the first time doubt. He doubted Montenegro, friendship, glory, and even lions; and the great man blubbered bitterly.
The scanty manner in which this dearth had been occasionally supplied for some time, excited a longing to participate in the instructions of the new Mission, which had already visited Arles, Valence, and Tarascon, under the sanction of the state; and whose claims to religious authority the writer defends by precedents unnecessary to enumerate here.
Windows would open and all Tarascon would watch with pride the stage-coach setting off along the king's highway. "What a fine road it was, Monsieur Tartarin, wide and well kept, with its kilometre markers, its heaps of roadmender's stones at regular intervals, and to right and left vinyards and pretty groves of olive trees.
At the rumpling sound of his belts and boots she turned, laid a finger on her veiled mouth, as one who would say, "Hush!" and with the other hand quickly tossed him a little wreath of sweet-scented jessamine flowers. Tartarin of Tarascon stooped to pick it up; but as he was rather clumsy, and much overburdened with implements of war, the operation took rather long.
For in Tarascon every remark begins with "Et autrement" which is pronounced "autremain" and ends with "au moins" which is pronounced "au mouain" and in these days the sound of "autremain" and "au mouain" was enough to rattle the windows. The most surprised person in the town to hear that he was leaving for Africa was Tartarin, but now see the effects of vanity.
Ah, in my day we three would have taken our swords, jumped on our horses, and, dashing into Tarascon, would soon have . But those good old days are passed. To-day we have to run away." "There is no time to lose," observed Louis. "True," said the marquis, "but to fly, to go abroad, one must have money; and I have none by me to give him." "Father!" "No, I have none.
It is highly probable too that it offers a large collection of pretty faces; for even in the few hours that I spent at Tarascon I discovered symptoms of the purity of feature for which the women of the pays d'Arles are renowned.
One evening, however, at about six o'clock, as they were going through a wood of mastic trees, where fat quail, made lazy by the heat were jumping up from the grass, Tartarin thought he heard... but so far off... so distorted by the wind... so faint, the wonderful roar which he had heard so many times back home in Tarascon, behind the menagerie Mitaine.
Later, at Avignon, I observed it in the exercise of these privileges, chief among which was that of frightening the good people of the old papal city half out of their wits. The château of King René serves to-day as the prison of a district, and the traveller who wishes to look into it must obtain his permission at the Mairie of Tarascon.
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