Tartarin

He is a plump and gullible man who is spurred by the small-town dynamics of Tarascon in Provence to go on a series of misadventures abroad.

The Tartarin character originated with Alphonse Daudet's desire to use his experiences from colonial Algeria, which he visited in 1861–1862, in a work of fiction.

Daudet abandoned his original plan to write a realist novel about Algeria and instead focused on the humorous delusions of an adventurer in Africa.

[6] Glénat published a comic-book adaptation of Tartarin of Tarascon by Pierre Guilmard [fr] and Louisa Djouadi in 2010.

A museum devoted to the character existed in Tarascon from 1985 to 2008, after which the building became a private residence.