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71 20 regardait toujours Tartarin: cf. note to 11 12. 71 21 prit la mouche: transl. 'took offense. Prendre la mouche = 'to seize the fly, 'to seize a slight occasion for becoming angry, 'to become vexed easily. 71 26 leur gaine: cf. note to 29 11.
Mistral said that the real Tartarin lived at Nîmes, eighteen miles from Tarascon, to the west of the Rhone, and was no other than Raynaud, Daudet's own cousin. Raynaud recognized himself in Tartarin and became very angry with Daudet; the reconciliation between the cousins was not effected till toward the end of the novelist's life."
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