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Tartarin of Tarascon

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Lighthearted adventure Comic bluster Provincial satire Tall tale reality Misadventure rollercoaster Picaresque chaos

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Synopsis

One of the great light-hearted French classics. The book tells the story of Tartarin, a Falstaff-like figure, full of hot-air and bluster, who is persuaded by the fellow residents of the provincial French town in which he lives to go on a lion-hunting expedition to Algeria. He blunders along from one disaster to the next, involving a foreign con-man, a lady of easy virtue, and a blind lion, but in the end he comes out of it all smelling of roses. It is best read in the original French.

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