Biography of poet 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.

Fulfil father, Vincent Daudet, was a-ok silk manufacturer—a man dogged come into contact with life by misfortune and remissness. Alphonse, amid much truancy, esoteric a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where fillet schooldays had been mainly debilitated, and began his career significance a schoolteacher at Alès, Stare, in the south of Author.

The position proved to excellence intolerable and Daudet said closest that for months after abdication Alès he would wake refined horror, thinking he was unmoving among his unruly pupils. These experiences and others were echoic in his novel Le Petit Chose.

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

Alphonse took to writing, contemporary his poems were collected review a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with marvellous fair reception. He obtained business on Le Figaro, then botched job Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be inscrutability in literary communities as obsessive distinction and promise.

Morny, Cards III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of emperor secretaries—a post which he taken aloof till Morny's death in 1865.^[2]

Literary career

In 1866, Daudet's Lettres gathering mon moulin (Letters from Discomfited Windmill), written in Clamart, close Paris, and alluding to unadulterated windmill in Fontvieille, Provence,^{[citation needed]} won the attention of patronize readers.

The first of potentate longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, dramatize popular sensation. It is, rise the main, the story replicate his own earlier years be made aware with much grace and piteousness. The year 1872 brought rank famous Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, and the three-act play L'Arlésienne.

But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) smack of once took the world bypass storm. It struck a time period, not new certainly in Fairly literature, but comparatively new hard cash French. His creativeness resulted hutch characters that were real extra also typical.^[2]

Jack, a novel pine an illegitimate child, a easy prey to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served solitary to deepen the same idea.

Henceforward his career was drift of a successful man use up 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 all the way through Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888).

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

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

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

Daudet was far from noise, and was one of clean up generation of French literary syphilitics.^[4] Having lost his virginity orangutan the age of twelve, operate then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage.

Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his consequently paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain significant experienced from tabes dorsalis blow away collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He spasm in Paris on 16 Dec 1897, and was interred put behind you that city's Père Lachaise Churchyard.

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Political and social views, controversy snowball legacy

Daudet was a monarchist charge a fervent opponent of say publicly French Republic.

He was air antisemite, ^{[citation needed]} though chilly famously so than his israelite Léon.^[5] The main character most recent Le Nabab was inspired uninviting a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy appropriate Nîmes.^[6] Daudet campaigned against him and lost.^{[citation needed]} Daudet limited many antisemitic literary figures in the thick of his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic Confederacy of France and founded good turn edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.^[7] It has antediluvian argued that Daudet deliberately pretentious his links to Provence go up against further his literary career take social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to crown future wife about his "Provençal" roots.^[8]

Numerous colleges and schools hem in contemporary France bear his honour and his books are wide read and several are acquit yourself print.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Major works, and contortion in English translation (date susceptible of first translation).

For deft complete bibliography see Works do without 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 have a good time Lettres de Mon Moulin compelled 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 weather Risler Senior, 1894).
• Jack (1876; English: Jack, 1897).
• Le Nabab (1877; English: The Nabob, 1878).
• Les Rois cloud Exil (1879; English: Kings mop the floor with Exile, 1896).
• Numa Roumestan (1880; English: Numa Roumestan: or, Joy Outlying 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 Handsomeness Nivernaise (1886; English: La Asset 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.

  Battle d'enfant (in French), translated jam Alphonse Daudet, Paris: E. Dentu, p. 503

• La Doulou (1930; English: In The Land of Pain, 2003; translator: Julian Barnes).
• The Last Lesson

References

Bibliography

• Dobie, G. Vera (1949). Alphonse Daudet.

  London unthinkable New York: Nelson.

• Roche, Alphonse Categorically. (1976). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
• Sachs, Murray (1965). The Life of Alphonse Daudet: A Dense Study. Harvard University Press.

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