Tartarin de Tarascon
Tartarin de Tarascon
[English Translation]
An ebullient and boastful Provençal, Tartarin de Tarascon survives astonishing adventures and mishaps as an amateur big-game hunter. Translated by Oliver C. Colt.
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her like it in Europe. Not one
indigenous tree grew there, not one French flower; nothing but exotic
plants, gum trees, calabashes, cotton trees, coconut palms, mangos,
bananas, cactuses, figs and a baobab. One might have thought oneself
in the middle of Africa, thousands of miles from Tarascon. Of course
none of these trees was fully grown, the coconut palm was about the
size of a swede and the baobab (arbos gigantica) fitted comfortably
into a pot full of earth and gravel. No matter....For Tarascon it was
quite splendid, and those citizens who were admitted, on Sundays, to
have the privilege of inspecting Tartarin's baobab went home full of
admiration.
You may imagine my emotions as I walked through this remarkable garden...they were nothing, however, to what I felt on being admitted to the sanctum of the great man himself.
This building, one of the curiosities of the town, was at the end of the garden, to which it opened through a glass door. Picture a large room hung from floor to c
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