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Despite his physical unfitness, he is sent to labor in the shipbuilding yards at Indret, suffers tortures in the stoking room of an ocean steamer, is wrecked, and returns to France in a piteous condition.
My reader would like to put the crossing of a great painter at the head of this episode. 2. Show me it first on board the Zouave, then show me how it was when Tartarin felt the first pangs. 3. Put it before my eyes. 4. In three days one can make the voyage from France to Algeria. 5. I shall show it to you struggling with the waves. 6. It begins to stand erect on the hero's skull. 7.
36 25 Alcazar: a music-hall. Alcazar means in Arabic 'the palace. 36 28 Ravel, Gil Pérès: popular comedians in Paris at the time Daudet was writing. 36 30 un bon gros vivant de Marseillais: a bon vivant is 'a man who lives well, 'a jolly fellow' On de see note to 1 12. 37 3 il se fit: cf. note to 5 23. 37 7 Machine en avant! machine en arrière! 'Go ahead! back her! Machine = 'engine'.
His next venture was the co-principalship of a private school at Nantes, but he soon resigned his position and became the editor of a paper at Brest. This he was soon compelled to give up for political reasons, and he then accepted a professorship of rhetoric in the same place, and afterwards in Mühlhausen.
3 25 Tarasque: a monster which, according to the legend, devastated the country about Tarascon until it was slain by Saint Martha, sister of Lazarus, who, in company with the three Marys, had come to Provence after the death of Christ At irregular intervals there is a festival in Tarascon to celebrate the destruction of the Tarasque. 'was playing the hundred tricks, 'raged.
Oui, ce que les matelots découvreurs apercevaient, en regardant l'autel du bord et les lumières votives de Notre Dame de Roc Amadour, c'était la vision ravissante du chez-nous dans la patrie, un at home hélas! loin de douze cents lieues.
I, p. 170. Robert Burns at Mossgiel by William Jolly, chapters IV, V, VI Rambles through the Land of Burns, by A. R. Adamson, chap.
At mihi cùm longum post tempus venerat hospes Sive operum vacuo, longum conviva per imbrem Vicinus, benè erat, non piscibus urbe petitis, Sed pullo atque hsedo, tum pensilis uva secundas Et nux ornabat mensas, cum duplice ficu.
4 19 Camargue a vast marshy delta at the mouth of the Rhone See Daudet's "En Camargue," in "Lettres de mon moulin". 4 23 il ne reste plus ... que: 'there remains nothing now, but' Il is impersonal, cf. 5 23, 8 1, 58 28 Ne plus = 'no longer, ne que = 'only, the same ne serving for both plus and que, cf. line 30, 23 3, 27-28, ne ... guère que 5 26, 1 17.
The hero awoke at dawn and saw that his treasure was gone. 2. The next day he saw that he had been robbed for the first time. 3. He began to weep bitterly. 4. Now, it was the prince that had deserted him in the heart of Africa. 5. He was sitting there with his head in his hands; suddenly he saw the camel looking at him. 6. Tartarin was stupefied on seeing the lion come forward. 7.
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