Write briefly about author Alphonse Daudet.
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Alphonse Daudet, (born May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France—died Dec. 16, 1897, Paris?), French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France.
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Alphonse Daudet
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Alphonse Daudet, (born May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France—died Dec. 16, 1897, Paris?), French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France.
Alphonse Daudet
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Alphonse Daudet
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BORN
May 13, 1840
Nîmes, France
DIED
December 16, 1897 (aged 57)
Paris?, France
NOTABLE WORKS
“Fromont jeune et Risler aîné”
“Les Amoureuses”
“L’Arlésienne”
“La Petite Paroisse”
“Jack”
“Le Petit Chose”
“La Dernière Idole”
“Lettres de mon moulin”
“Les Contes du lundi”
“Les Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon”
Life
Daudet was the son of a silk manufacturer. In 1849 his father had to sell his factory and move to Lyon. Alphonse wrote his first poems and his first novel at age 14. In 1857 his parents lost all their money, and Daudet had to give up his hopes of matriculating. His work as an usher at a school at Alès for six unhappy months culminated in his dismissal but later furnished the theme, with embellishments and omissions, for his semiautobiographical novel Le Petit Chose (1868; “The Little Thing”). At the end of the year he joined his elder brother, Ernest, in Paris.
Alphonse Daudet, (born May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France—died Dec. 16, 1897, Paris?), French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France.