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Alphonse Daudet

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born

May 13, 1840 in Nimes, France

died

December 16, 1897

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.

Aphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. The position proved to be intolerable. As Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career he was haunted in dreams by the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business, so Daudet says that for months after leav...more

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Books by Alphonse Daudet

Average rating: 3.60 · 1,144 ratings · 72 reviews · 139 distinct works

	Lettres de mon moulin 3.65 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 1866 — 87 editions	My rating:
	Le Petit Chose 3.47 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1868 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Tartarin of Tarascon 3.33 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1872 — 65 editions	My rating:
	In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sapho 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1954 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Contes du lundi 3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1337 — 13 editions	My rating:
	La Chevre De Monsieur Seguin = Mr Seguin's Goat 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Fry and Laurie read Daudet & Jerome by Alphonse Daudet, Jerome K. Jerome, Stephen Fry (narrator) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Artists' Wives by Alphonse Daudet, Olivier Bernier (Introduction) 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Tartarin On The Alps 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1931 — 28 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Alphonse Daudet

“Homo duplex! Homo duplex!
La première fois que je me suis aperçu que j'étais deux, à
la mort de mon frère Henri, quand papa criait si dramatiquement:
il est mort",mon premier MOI pleurait et le second pensait: "quel
cri juste! Que ce serait beau au théâtre!" j'avais quatorze ans.
Cette horrible dualité m'a souvent fait songer. Oh!
Ce terrible second MOI toujours assis pendant que l'autre
est debout, agit, souffre, se démène! Ce second MOI que je
n'ai jamais pu griser, ni faire pleurer, ni endormir!
Et comme il y voit! et comme il est moqueur!”
― Alphonse Daudet

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