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Daudet, like our Dickens, succeeded in producing characters invested with such reality that in the minds of readers they become veritable beings. Of all his creations Tartarin is the most widely known, and the world's conception of a French southerner is derived from the portrait of this hero. As is usual in the works of Daudet, the character of Tartarin is not wholly fictitious.

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon

Now Juan was a hero as I've said, Or shall be one which will do quite as well, 'Tis not alone the "unforgotten dead" The Poet can embalm within his spell. A Pitt or Luther, when his soul has sped, Is but a name like him of whom I tell. The shade 'twixt real and fictitious glory, Is living in history or in a story. But this I know that Juan then did feel.

Various - L'Illustration, No. 0012, 20 Mai 1843