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Go to Tarascon, seek out a man who almost went to Shanghai, look steadfastly at him, and if the southern sun is shining upon him you will soon be convinced that he has actually gone to Shanghai. In reading "Tartarin de Tarascon," therefore, remember that Tartarin's world is small and his imagination large; that he never lies, though he rarely tells the truth.
52 17 se ressemblent: 'look alike', cf. note to 7 2 ces dames: cf. note to 16 13 ne sortent guère: 'rarely leave their homes', sortir = 'to go out, 'to leave the house. 52 18 ville haute: cf. note to 37 27. 52 25 Teurs ... forbans: 'fierce Turks with pirate like heads', cf. note to 1 5.
Voici donc comment s'exprime M. Cobden: «Let me thank you for introducing to us Mr. Fonteyraud, who excited our admiration not only by his superior talents, but by the warmth of his zeal in the cause of free-trade. I have rarely met with a young man of his age possessing so much knowledge and so mature a judgement both as respects men and things.
"My father said to me again and again," Léon Daudet tells us, "I should like, after I have accomplished my task, to set myself up as a merchant of happiness. My reward would be in my success!" This longing, so entirely characteristic of the man, is manifest everywhere in his earlier work, only rarely in the great novels; unfortunately the great novels were his "task."
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