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81 19 maquis: ordinarily used only of the Corsican 'maquis', extensive areas overgrown with an almost impenetrable tangle of brushwood le grenier de la France: the words of the enthusiastic promoters of Algerian colonization Algeria's famous grain producing region does not extend farther inland than one hundred miles, and does not include the part which Tartarin was now traversing.
But I am quite sure that M. Guizot regrets these proceedings as much as I can do; though I well know that, from the mechanism of government, a minister cannot always control departements over which he does not himself preside. We are now about to retire, and in ten days' time our successors will be in office.
53 23 Tenons-nous bien: a phrase of warning to be on guard and ready, transl. 'ware Turks! Il: cf. note to 4 23. 54 1 Il y avait ... cherchait: 'for two long weeks the luckless Tartarin had been seeking. 54 6 ni plus ni moins que l'Opéra: 'just as the Opera does. The Opéra is the famous Opera House in Paris, where a great masked ball is given every year.
Where sadness does not dominate in Daudet, irony takes its place. These two qualities, sadness which is inspired by pity for human suffering and irony which betrays impatience with human folly, these two qualities which are the heart and soul of Daudet's work are the enemies of that impassiveness which is the indispensable attitude of the realist, and which Daudet tried in vain to acquire.
Will you kindly interpret a French gentleman who does not speak a word of English? Certainly, Sir, with pleasure.
Our Provençal cicada has a purpose now: nothing else than the reformation of all social abuses. He does not single out one and attack it time after time, but he springs restlessly from one to another, directing high and low his relentless inquiry. "Fromont jeune et Risler aîné" is the first of Daudet's great novels and one of his strongest studies.
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