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Alphonse Daudet

Been born in Nimes on May 13th, 1840, Alphonse Daudet made his secondary education in Lyon.
 

Provincial young person was gone(taken) up to Paris, he knew it difficult debuts. He occupied the post of secretary with the duke of Morny, influential person Of the second Empire, when this one died suddenly, in 1865: this event The decisive bend of the career of Daudet was. From then on, this last one did not dedicate himself more than to the writing, not only as Columnist - notably to the Figaro but also as novelist.It is after a journey in Provence which he began to draft the first texts
 

Letters of my mill. Daudet obtained from Villemessant, the director of Newspaper the Event, to publish in serial its Letters during all summer 1886, under the title of provincial Columns(Chronicles).
 

Some of the stories of this collection stayed among the most popular histories Of our literature: it is the case of Goat of M.Seguin, Three Masses Basses or some Elixir of the reverend father Left-handed person.
 

The first true novel of Daudet, Small Thing(Matter) (1868 ), was widely Autobiographical because he(it) evoked so as to romancée punishment(effort) his(its) recollections Of design teacher to the school of Alès.
 

It is only in 1874 when Daudet approached the novel of customs, with Fromont Young person and elder Risler, who was followed by the other novels of the same type, as Jack ( 1876 ), Nabab ( 1877 ), Kings in exile ( 1879 ), Numa Roumestan ( 1881 ) Or the Immortal ( 1883 ).
 

In spite of his intense activity of novelist and dramatist (he wrote seventeen Details, Daudet did not neglect for all that its narrator's works: in 1872, him Created his mythical person, Braggart de Tarascon, celebrates boaster of whom Adventures took place on several volumes. The Tales of Monday ( 1873 ), Collection of tales on the French-Prussian war, also testify of its taste For this kind and for the magnificent stories.
 

Alphonse Daudet died in Paris the 30juin 1942.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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