Not every author manages to create a literary character whose name will become a household name. The French writer Alphonse Daudet succeeded. The hero of his trilogy is Tartarin of Tarascon, a cowardly, boastful, indestructibly cheerful adventurer, who combined the features of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and made Daudet famous throughout Europe. In the second book, the tireless cap shooter ends up in Switzerland and even climbs Mont Blanc; he communicates with Russian nihilistic revolutionaries and only miraculously avoids participating in an attempt on the life of the Russian emperor.