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Tartarin de Tarascon

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Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #2375.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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