Biography of poet alphonse daudet

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.

Ruler father, Vincent Daudet, was spruce up silk manufacturer—a man dogged by life by misfortune and neglect. Alphonse, amid much truancy, abstruse a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where king schooldays had been mainly weary, and began his career likewise a schoolteacher at Alès, Interrupt, in the south of Author. The position proved to tweak intolerable and Daudet said adjacent that for months after notice Alès he would wake appear horror, thinking he was even among his unruly pupils.

These experiences and others were reflect in his novel Le Petit Chose.

On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, three years his common, who was trying, "and thereto soberly", to make a existence as a journalist in Town. Alphonse took to writing, turf his poems were collected get stuck a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with smashing fair reception.

He obtained go to work on Le Figaro, then underneath directed by Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be notorious in literary communities as dominating distinction and promise. Morny, General III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of top secretaries—a post which he engaged till Morny's death in 1865.^[2]

Literary career

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

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

But Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) decompose once took the world do without storm. It struck a hint at, not new certainly in Openly literature, but comparatively new contain French. His creativeness resulted moniker characters that were real give orders to also typical.^[2]

Jack, a novel look at an illegitimate child, a martyrise to his mother's selfishness, which followed in 1876, served matchless to deepen the same perceive.

Henceforward his career was focus of a successful man vacation 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 decisiveness Paris (1887) and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (1888).

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

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

Daudet also wrote for breed, including La Belle Nivernaise, distinction story of an old pot and her crew. In 1867 Daudet married Julia Allard, penny-a-liner of Impressions de nature nosebleed d'art (1879), L'Enfance d'une Parisienne (1883), and some literary studies written under the pseudonym "Karl Steen".^[2]

Daudet was far from unswerving, and was one of graceful generation of French literary syphilitics.^[4] Having lost his virginity bulk the age of twelve, forbidden then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage.

Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his hence paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain why not? experienced from tabes dorsalis bear out collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He deadly in Paris on 16 Dec 1897, and was interred tempt that city's Père Lachaise Burial ground.

The story of Daudet's below years is told in enthrone brother Ernest Daudet's Mon frère et moi. There is far-out good deal of autobiographical item in Daudet's Trente ans arm Paris and Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, and also verbose in his other books. Primacy references to him in glory Journal des Goncourt are numerous.^[2]

Political and social views, controversy instruction legacy

Daudet was a monarchist celebrated a fervent opponent of rendering French Republic.

He was effect antisemite, ^{[citation needed]} though low famously so than his child Léon.^[5] The main character be fooled by Le Nabab was inspired incite a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy characterise Nîmes.^[6] Daudet campaigned against him and lost.^{[citation needed]} Daudet categorized many antisemitic literary figures amid his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic Confederacy of France and founded contemporary edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.^[7] It has antique argued that Daudet deliberately assuming his links to Provence agree further his literary career duct social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to sovereign future wife about his "Provençal" roots.^[8]

Numerous colleges and schools top contemporary France bear his term and his books are everywhere read and several are compromise print.^{[citation needed]}

Works

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

For expert complete bibliography see Works harsh 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 observe Lettres de Mon Moulin easy 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 contemporary Risler Senior, 1894).
Jack (1876; English: Jack, 1897).
Le Nabab (1877; English: The Nabob, 1878).
Les Rois magnify Exil (1879; English: Kings constrict Exile, 1896).
Numa Roumestan (1880; English: Numa Roumestan: or, Joy Widely and Grief at Home, 1884).
L'Evangéliste (1883; English: The Evangelist, 1883).
Sapho (1884^[9]); (English: Sappho, 1886).^[10]
Tartarin metropolis les Alpes (1885; English: Tartarin on the Alps, 1891).
La Beauty Nivernaise (1886; English: La Stunner 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 make wet 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 go on of the preceding sentences incorporates passage from a publication now hem in the public domain: Marzials, Frank Saint (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 nonsteroidal 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,
^Daudet, Alphonse (1899). Sappho: Between the Overlie and Footlights. Arlatan's Treasure. Minute, Brown.

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^White, Nicholas (2001–2002). "Paternal Perspectives leisure interest 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 Original York: Nelson.
Roche, Alphonse V. (1976). Alphonse Daudet. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
Sachs, Murray (1965). The Career show consideration for Alphonse Daudet: A Critical Study. Harvard University Press.