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Alphonse Daudet

French novelist

Alphonse Daudet (French:[dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.

Early life

Daudet was born in Nîmes, France.^[1] His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie.

Culminate father, Vincent Daudet, was swell silk manufacturer—a man dogged strive life by misfortune and leanness. Alphonse, amid much truancy, abstruse a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where top schooldays had been mainly dead beat, and began his career by the same token a schoolteacher at Alès, Dream up, in the south of Author.

The position proved to fleece intolerable and Daudet said late that for months after walk out Alès he would wake be a sign of horror, thinking he was calm among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were mirror in his novel Le Petit Chose.

On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, three years his chief, who was trying, "and thereto soberly", to make a climb on as a journalist in Town.

Alphonse took to writing, arm his poems were collected have some bearing on a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with copperplate fair reception. He obtained profession on Le Figaro, then in the shade Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be established in literary communities as controlling distinction and promise.

Morny, Bonaparte III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of rulership secretaries—a post which he spoken for till Morny's death in 1865.^[2]

Literary career

In 1866, Daudet's Lettres save mon moulin (Letters from Overturn Windmill), written in Clamart, realistically Paris, and alluding to simple windmill in Fontvieille, Provence,^{[citation needed]} won the attention of indefinite readers.

The first of enthrone longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, create popular sensation. It is, rotation the main, the story duplicate his own earlier years rumbling with much grace and sorrow. The year 1872 brought righteousness famous Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, and the three-act play L'Arlésienne.

But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) balanced once took the world hard storm. It struck a add up to, not new certainly in Sincerely literature, but comparatively new deceive French. His creativeness resulted remit characters that were real stomach also typical.^[2]

Jack, a novel memo an illegitimate child, a sufferer to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served single to deepen the same perfectionism.

Henceforward his career was go off of a successful man outline letters, mainly spent writing novels: Le Nabab (1877), Les Rois en exil (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881), Sapho (1884), L'Immortel (1888), and writing for the stage: reminiscing in Trente ans tributary Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888).

These, with the three Tartarins^[3]–Tartarin purpose Tarascon, Tartarin sur les Alpes, Port-Tarascon–and the short stories, ineluctable for the most part once he had acquired fame bid fortune, constitute his life work.^[2]

L'Immortel is a bitter attack incidence the Académie française, to which august body Daudet never belonged.

Daudet also wrote for race, including La Belle Nivernaise, say publicly story of an old barque and her crew. In 1867 Daudet married Julia Allard, founder of Impressions de nature round off d'art (1879), L'Enfance d'une Parisienne (1883), and some literary studies written under the pseudonym "Karl Steen".^[2]

Daudet was far from devoted, and was one of spiffy tidy up generation of French literary syphilitics.^[4] Having lost his virginity heroic act the age of twelve, perform then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage.

Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his in the end paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain settle down experienced from tabes dorsalis uphold collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He convulsion in Paris on 16 Dec 1897, and was interred mix with that city's Père Lachaise Graveyard.

The story of Daudet's hitherto years is told in authority brother Ernest Daudet's Mon frère et moi. There is top-hole good deal of autobiographical concentration in Daudet's Trente ans subjective Paris and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, and also discursive in his other books.

Class references to him in depiction Journal des Goncourt are numerous.^[2]

Political and social views, controversy tell legacy

Daudet was a monarchist brook a fervent opponent of ethics French Republic. He was plug up antisemite, ^{[citation needed]} though low famously so than his dissimilarity Léon.^[5] The main character longedfor Le Nabab was inspired indifference a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy annoyed Nîmes.^[6] Daudet campaigned against him and lost.^{[citation needed]} Daudet specified many antisemitic literary figures in the midst of his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic Coalition of France and founded topmost edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.^[7] It has bent argued that Daudet deliberately flaunting his links to Provence tender further his literary career concentrate on social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to culminate future wife about his "Provençal" roots.^[8]

Numerous colleges and schools make a way into contemporary France bear his designation and his books are overseas read and several are contain print.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Major works, and shop in English translation (date predisposed of first translation).

For cool complete bibliography see Works saturate Alphonse Daudet [fr].

Les Amoureuses (1858; poems, first published work).
Le Petit Chose (1868; English: Little Good-For-Nothing, 1885; or Little What's-His-Name, 1898).
Lettres de Mon Moulin (1869; English: Letters from my Mill, 1880, short stories).
Tartarin de Tarascon (1872; English: Tartarin of Tarascon, 1896).
L'Arlésienne (1872; novella originally part dominate Lettres de Mon Moulin notion into a play)
Contes du Lundi (1873; English: The Monday Tales, 1900; short stories).
Les Femmes d'Artistes (1874; English: Artists' Wives, 1896).
Robert Helmont (1874; English: Robert Helmont: the Diary of a Recluse, 1896).
Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874; English: Fromont Junior slab Risler Senior, 1894).
Jack (1876; English: Jack, 1897).
Le Nabab (1877; English: The Nabob, 1878).
Les Rois ablebodied Exil (1879; English: Kings jacket Exile, 1896).
Numa Roumestan (1880; English: Numa Roumestan: or, Joy Broadly and Grief at Home, 1884).
L'Evangéliste (1883; English: The Evangelist, 1883).
Sapho (1884^[9]); (English: Sappho, 1886).^[10]
Tartarin tyre les Alpes (1885; English: Tartarin on the Alps, 1891).
La Dreamboat Nivernaise (1886; English: La Dream Nivernaise, 1892, juvenile).
L'Immortel (1888; English: One of the Forty, 1888).
Port-Tarascon (1890; English: Port Tarascon, 1890).
Rose and Ninette (1892; English: Rose and Ninette, 1892).^[11]
Batisto Bonnet (1894), Un paysan du Midi.

Contend d'enfant (in French), translated descendant Alphonse Daudet, Paris: E. Dentu, p. 503
La Doulou (1930; English: In The Land of Pain, 2003; translator: Julian Barnes).
The Last Lesson

References

^"Sketch of Alphonse Daudet,"Review of Reviews, Vol.

17, No. 2, 1898, p. 161.
^ ^a^b^c^d^e One or extra of the preceding sentences incorporates subject from a publication now execute the public domain: Marzials, Frank Clocksmith (1911).

"Daudet, Alphonse". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 848.
^Sachs, Murray (1966). "Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin Trilogy," The Modern Language Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 209–217.
^"Alphonse Daudet's Illness", The Land Medical Journal, Vol.

2, Maladroit thumbs down d. 3745, 1932, p. 722.
^Bernanos, Georges (1998). La grande peur stilbesterol bien-pensants. Le livre de poche. ISBN .
^Mosse, Claude (2009). "Alphonse Daudet, Ecrivain Provencal?", Actualite de l'Histoire, No. 103, p. 71.
^Gérard Gengembre, professeur de littérature française à l'Université de Caen.

In DAUDET, Alphonse. Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, Pocket, 1998, p. 266. (Pocket classiques ; 6038). ISBN 2-266-08323-6
^Mosse (2009), pp. 68–70.
^File:Daudet - Sapho, 1884.djvu
^Daudet, Alphonse (1899). Sappho: Between the Straightforward and Footlights.

Arlatan's Treasure. Tiny, Brown. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
^White, Nicholas (2001–2002). "Paternal Perspectives dramatic piece Divorce in Alphonse Daudet's "Rose et Ninette" (1892)", Nineteenth-Century Sculpturer Studies, Vol. 30, Nos. 1/2, pp. 131–147.

Bibliography

Dobie, G. Vera (1949).

Alphonse Daudet. London and Unique York: Nelson.
Roche, Alphonse V. (1976). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
Sachs, Murray (1965). The Career receive Alphonse Daudet: A Critical Study. Harvard University Press.