“You will see that the only liar in the Midi, if there is one, is the sun; everything that he touches he exaggerates.”

—  Alphonse Daudet, book Tartarin of Tarascon

Le seul menteur du Midi, s'il y en a un, c'est le soleil. Tout ce qu'il touche, il l'exagère!
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.

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