Tartarin de Tarascon
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Tartarin de Tarascon is an 1872 novel written by the French author Alphonse Daudet.
It tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East. And worst of all, there are no lions left.
The book was followed by two sequels: Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885) and Port-Tarascon (1890).
Since 1985, a small museum in the city of Tarascon is dedicated to the fictional character Tartarin. A festival is held in Tarascon every year on the last Sunday of June to remember Tartarin and the Tarasque.
Movies based on this novel, and with the same title, were released in 1908, 1934, and 1962. The 1962 film was directed by Francis Blanche, and starred Alfred Adam, Jacqueline Maillan, Bourvil, Robert Porte.
[edit] External links
- Tartarin de Tarascon, available freely at Project Gutenberg
- Tartarin de Tarascon (1962) at the Internet Movie Database
- Tartarin de Tarascon (1934) at the Internet Movie Database
- Tartarin de Tarascon (1908) at the Internet Movie Database
