Port-Tarascon

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Excerpt from Port-Tarascon: To Whichis Added Studies and Landscapes Five years after the crowning success of Tartarin sur les Alpes, Daudet published the third and last volume of his memorable series, under the appropriate title of Port-Tarascon. The vogue of his humour throughout the whole civilized world was sufficiently proved by the fact that a distinguished American novelist found it worth his while to make an excellent version of these latest adventures of the superb Tartarin, while a popular American magazine was glad to secure permission to give the translation to its readers in serial form. But the Daudet of 1890 was a very different man from the Daudet who had been able to make Europe hold its sides when with inimitable gravity he exclaimed, "Décidément le Mont-Blanc comptait une victime de plus, et quelle victime!" Since 1885 he had been an intense nervous sufferer. That dreadest of all the foes of the man of letters, insomnia, had taken hold upon him. He would indulge himself in long periods of relaxation and then would work with feverish energy, with results not altogether propitious to his fame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.