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Title: Tartarin de Tarascon

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Release Date: January 11, 2004 [EBook #10687]

Language: French (with English)

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TARTARIN DE TARASCON

PAR

ALPHONSE DAUDET

WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND EXERCISES

BY

BARRY CERF

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

PREFACE

The test of this edition is reprinted without alteration from that of the
"Collection Guillaume" (E. Flammarion, Paris, publisher).

"Tartarin de Tarascon" should be read by high-school students at the end
of their second or in their third year and by college students at the end
of the first or in the second year.

It is with great pleasure that I express my indebtedness for many
suggestions to my friend Professor W.F. Giese of the University of
Wisconsin.

B.C.

MADISON, WISCONSIN

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
TEXT
PREMIER EPISODE: A TARASCON
I. Le jardin du baobab.
II. Coup d'oeil general jete sur la bonne ville de Tarascon; les
chasseurs de Casquettes.
III. Nan! nan! nan! Suite du coup d'oeil general jete sur la bonne ville
de Tarascon.
IV. Ils!!!
V. Quand Tartarin de Tarascon allait au cercle.
VI. Les deux Tartarins.
VII. Les Europeens a Shang-hai. Le Haut Commerce. Les Tartares. Tartarin
de Tarascon serait-il un imposteur? Le mirage.
VIII. La menagerie Mitaine. Un lion de l'Atlas a Tarascon. Terrible et
solennelle entrevue!
IX. Singuliers effets du mirage.
X. Avant le depart.
XI. Des coups d'epee, messieurs, des coups d'epee, mais pas de coups
d'epingle!
XII. De ce qui fut dit dans la petite maison du baobab.
XIII. Le depart.
XIV. Le port de Marseille. Embarque! embarque!

DEUXIEME EPISODE CHEZ LES TEURS

I. La traversee. Les cinq positions de la chechia. Le soir du
troisieme jour. Misericorde!
II. Aux armes! aux armes!