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Port-Tarascon; To Which Is Added Studies and Landscapes
PortTarascon To Which Is Added Studies and Landscapes Author:Alphonse Daudet General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of... more » this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: My narrative is based on fact; it is taken from the letters of the emigrants; from the " Memorial" of the youthful secretary of Tartarin himself; from reports published in the " Gazette des Tribunaux; " and should you find, here or there, some rather too extravagant tarasconade, may I be shot if I invented it.1 The Author. FIRST BOOK. 1 Read in the newspapers of a dozen years ago the trial of " New France " and the colony of Port-Breton ; also the curious volume published by Dreyfous, and written by Dr. Baudoin, physician to the expedition. Lamentations of Tarascon over the present state of things. The Bulls. The White-Fathers. A Tarasconese in Paradise. Siege and surrender of the abbey of Pampdrigouste. " Branquebalme, my dear fellow, ... I am not content with France ! . . Our rulers are doing just all they please with us." Thus said Tartarin one evening, standing before the fireplace of the club-room, and proffering, with the gesture and accent we can all imagine, these memorable words, which summed up admirably what was thought and said at Tarascon-sur-Rh6ne for two or three months before the emigration. In general, the Tarasconese do not concern themselves with politics; indolent by nature, indifferent to all that does not touch them locally, they hold to the maintenance of " the present state of things," as they say. Nevertheless, for some time past, the " state of things " had come in for a good deal of blame. " Our rulers are doing just all they please with us," said Tartarin. " Just all ...« less