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71 13 grosse comme le poing: 'as big as your fist. 71 14 haute de cinq doigts: cf. notes to 26 5 and 42 23. serviette: a kind of 'portfolio' widely used in France by public officials, professors, and others, for carrying papers and books. 71 15 notaire: the position of the French notaire is more dignified than that of our 'notary', he performs some of the functions of the American lawyer.
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.
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