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    Tartarin of Tarascon
    Tartarin of Tarascon
    Tartarin of Tarascon
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    Tartarin of Tarascon

    Written by Alphonse Daudet

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Alphonse Daudet

    Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) novelist, playwright, journalist is mainly remembered for the depiction of Provence in Lettres De Mon Moulin and his novel of amour fou, Sappho. He suffered from syphilis for the last 12 years of his life, recorded in La Doulou which has been translated into English by Julian Barnes as The Land of Pain.

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