Les Aventures De M. Colin-Tampon

M. Colin-Tampon has done the impossible: he's become wealthy through an invention, leaving him free to pursue his true passion hunting. Armed with enthusiasm, a brand-new outfit, and absolutely no experience whatsoever, he marches into the French countryside ready for glory. What follows is a spectacular cascade of comical disasters. He mistakes a live hare for a strategically placed pelt. He misreads every situation. And when he finally encounters an actual bear, his response is exactly what you'd expect from a man who has never been more than ten minutes from a café. His long-suffering dog Azor witnesses it all with the weary resignation of a creature who knows his master is hopeless. Girardin delivers gentle, period-specific satire on the gulf between ambition and competence, between the idealized notion of the noble hunt and the reality of a middle-aged man in a silly hat running headfirst into danger. It's absurd, it's light, and it knows exactly what it is.