Alfons Daudet

Tartarin of Tarascon is an 1872 novel written by the French author Alphonse Daudet.

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the "Letters", first published in book form in 1869, which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting. Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost …