tout juste: exactly so

13. Chassaing. Jacques Chassaing, bom in 182 1, died in 187 1, was a famous lion hunter. His ^"^Mes chasses aux lions " was pubUshed in

Tartarin sur les Alpes appeared in 1886, fourteen years after Tartarin de Tarascon, The hero, who has been for some years Président of the Alpine Club of Tarascon, finds his popularity on the wane, and in order to strengthen his candidacy in the approaching élection, in which he has a formidable rival, he décides to prove his fitness for the place by climbing some of the highest of the Alps. His adventures in this expédition fumish an opportunity to Daudet for caricaturing Alpinism in gênerai.