The story was maybe better than the original "Tartarin of Tarascon". As usual, Tartarin doesn't have a clue what's happening in the world around him, falls pathetically in love, and bumbles through. (Goodreads)
Alphonse Daudet, (born May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France—died Dec. 16, 1897, Paris?), French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France.