III. Invocation a Cervantes. Debarquement. Ou sont les Teurs? Pas de
Teurs.
Desillusion.
IV. Le premier affut.
V. Pan! Pan!
VI. Arrivee de la femelle. Terrible combat. Le Rendez-vous des Lapins.
VII. Histoire d'un omnibus, d'une Mauresque et d'un chapelet de fleurs
De Jasmin.
VIII. Lions de l'Atlas, dormez!
IX. Le prince Gregory du Montenegro.
X. Dis-moi le nom de ton pere, et je te dirai le nom de cette fleur.
XI. Sidi Tart'ri ben Tart'ri.
XII. On nous ecrit de Tarascon.

TROISIEME EPISODE: CHEZ LES LIONS

I. Les diligences deportees.
II. Ou l'on voit passer un petit monsieur.
III. Un couvent de lions.
IV. La caravane en marche.
V. L'affut du soir dans un bois de lauriers-roses.
VI. Enfin!
VII. Catastrophes sur catastrophes.
VIII. Tarascon! Tarascon!

NOTES
EXERCISES

INTRODUCTION

ALPHONSE DAUDET

(_Nimes, May 13, 1840; Paris, December 16, 1897_)

Alphonse Daudet was born in the ancient Provencal city of Nimes, near the
Rhone, May 13, 1840. In this same year Emile Zola, destined like Daudet to
pass his youth in Provence, was born at Paris.

As a result of the commercial upheaval which attended the revolution of
1848, Daudet's father, a wealthy silk manufacturer, was ruined. After a
hard struggle he was forced to give up his business at Nimes and moved to
Lyons (1849). He was not successful here, and finally, in 1856, the family
was broken up. The sons now had to shift for themselves.

These first sixteen years of Alphonse Daudet's life were far from unhappy.
He had found delight in exploring the abandoned factory at Nimes. His
school days at Lyons were equally agreeable to the young vagabond. His
studies occupied him little; he loved to wander through the streets of the
great city, finding everywhere food for fanciful speculation. He would
follow a person he did not know, scrutinizing his every movement, and
striving to lose his own identity in that of the other, to live the
other's life. His frequent days of truancy he spent in these idle rambles,
or in drifting down the river. Literary ambition had already seized him;
he had written a novel (of which no trace remains) and numerous verses.
Notwithstanding his lack of application to study, he had succeeded in
completing the course of the _lycee_.

In 1856 when it became certain that the father could no longer care for
the family, the mother and daughter took refuge i