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Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)

Author of Letters From My Windmill

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About the Author

Novelist and short-story writer Alphonse Daudet was born on May 13, 1840 in Nimes, France. At the age of 14, he wrote his first novel. He worked as a teacher in Alais, a journalist in Paris, and as a private secretary for Duke de Morny from 1861 to 1865. He married fellow writer Julia Allard in show more 1867. He enlisted in the army during the Franco-Prussian war. He is primarily remembered for his sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. His novel Fromont the Younger and Risler the Elder won an award from the Academie Francaise. He died on December 16, 1897 in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Alphonse Daudet

Letters From My Windmill (1880) — Author — 1,274 copies
Tartarin of Tarascon (1872) 673 copies
Little What's-His-Name (1868) 337 copies
The Monday Tales (1873) 203 copies
Sapho (1884) 192 copies
In the Land of Pain (1930) 171 copies
Tartarin on the Alps (1872) — Author — 156 copies
The Brave Little Goat of Monsieur Seguin (1866) — Contributor — 77 copies
The Nabob (1878) 70 copies
Fromont and Risler (1874) 46 copies
Sapho: Manon Lescaut (1919) 41 copies
Jack (1900) — Author — 38 copies
Contes choisis (1954) 32 copies
Port-Tarascon (1891) 30 copies
Numa Roumestan (1900) 28 copies
Artists' Wives (2007) 25 copies
La Belle-Nivernaise (1987) 23 copies
Kings in Exile (1879) 19 copies
I tre libri di Tartarino (1871) — Author — 16 copies
The Pope's Mule (1972) 16 copies
Lettres de mon moulin (1975) 15 copies
The Immortal (1890) 15 copies
The Little Parish Church (1900) 13 copies
The Evangelist (1892) 10 copies
Meistererzählungen (1959) 9 copies
L'Arlésienne (1986) 9 copies
Familiens Støtte : Roman (2017) 8 copies
Daudet : Oeuvres, tome 1 (1986) 8 copies
The Nabob, Volume 1 (2008) 7 copies
The Last Lesson (1991) 7 copies
Robert Helmont (1874) 7 copies
Daudet : Oeuvres, tome 2 (1990) 6 copies
Rose et Ninette (2016) 5 copies
Neuf Contes Choisis (1937) 5 copies
The Three Low Masses (1986) 4 copies
Werke (1972) 4 copies
Le Singe (2011) 4 copies
Lettres de mon moulin et Contes du lundi (1991) — Author — 4 copies
Fulanito 4 copies
Daudet : Oeuvres, tome 3 (1994) 4 copies
Les Amoureuses (2016) 3 copies
Lettres de mon moulin (1869) — Author — 3 copies
The Siege Of Berlin (2011) 3 copies
Lettres De Mon Moulin par Alphonse Daudet (1973) — Author — 3 copies
哀愁のパリ 3 copies
Le cure de cucugnan (1991) 3 copies
Tartarin of Tarascon and Le Petit Chose (1911) — Author — 3 copies
Daudet 3 copies
Le trésor d'Arlatan (2017) 3 copies
In the Midst of Paris (2016) 3 copies
The head of the family (2012) 3 copies
Numa Roumestan / Rose and Ninette — Author — 2 copies
Le Cabecilla (2011) 2 copies
Pariser Novellen (1975) 2 copies
CINQ CONTES CINCO CUENTOS (2003) 2 copies
Short Stories 2 copies
Choix De Contes (1908) — Author — 2 copies
Oeuvres Complètes - Jack (1890) 2 copies
Les mères (1995) 2 copies
Tartarin de Tarascon (2010) — Auteur illustré — 2 copies
BIS - Sapho (2010) 1 copy
Les lettres de mon moulin. Tome II — Author — 1 copy
קטינא 1 copy
Jack Tome 2 1 copy
Les lettres de mon moulin. Tome I — Author — 1 copy
Cosino 1 copy
Hortense 1 copy
A Violet! 1 copy
The Two Inns 1 copy
Contes choisis pour la jeunesse — Author — 1 copy
Contes pour les jeunes (1978) 1 copy
The Camargue 1 copy
Fromont and Risler / Tartarin of Tarascon (1910) — Author — 1 copy
The Wreck 1 copy
An Escape 1 copy
The Drummer 1 copy
My Neighbor 1 copy
The Colors 1 copy
Studio Love 1 copy
Le Père Achille (2013) 1 copy
Sappho 1 copy
Wood'stown (2011) 1 copy
Salvette and Bernadou (2013) 1 copy

Associated Works

75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Contributor — 289 copies
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contributor — 286 copies
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Contributor — 181 copies
Stories to Remember, Volume I (1956) — Contributor — 144 copies
French Short Stories (1998) — Contributor — 82 copies
Pearl S. Buck's Book of Christmas (1605) — Contributor — 43 copies
French Fiction (1909) — Contributor — 38 copies
Vingt et un contes (1934) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories (1968) — Contributor, some editions — 18 copies
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories Volumes 3 & 4 (1900) — Contributor — 17 copies
All verdens fortellere (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 15 copies
Great Short Stories Volume 3: Romance and Adventure (1906) — Contributor — 14 copies
Laatunovelleja (1998) 8 copies
International Short Stories French (Volume 3) (2010) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Story Survey (1953) — Contributor — 6 copies
Great Love Scenes from Famous Novels (1943) — Contributor — 5 copies
Brieven uit mijn Molen (1979) 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 11 Number 1, January 1928 — Contributor — 3 copies
Representative Modern Short Stories (1929) — Contributor — 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
Short Stories: The Timeless Collection (Unabridged) (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies
Meesters der Franse vertelkunst (1950) — Contributor — 2 copies
Spionhistorier fra hele verden — Contributor — 2 copies
Short Stories: The Nostalgia Collection (2008) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tales for a Stormy Night — Author, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Daudet, Alphonse
Legal name
Daudet, Alphonse
Other names
Baptiste (Pseudonyme)
Gaston-Marie (Pseudonyme)
Froissart, Jehan (Pseudonyme)
de l'Isle, Jehan (Pseudonyme)
Daudet, Alfonz
Daudet, Alfonsus (show all 8)
Dodē, Alfonss
Dodé, Alfons
Birthdate
1840-05-13
Date of death
1897-12-16
Burial location
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Île-de-France, France
Gender
male
Nationality
France
Country (for map)
France
Birthplace
Nîmes, Gard, Occitanie, France
Place of death
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Places of residence
Nîmes, Gard, Occitanie, France (birth)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Algeria
Clamart, France
Education
Lycée Ampère, Lyon (1850l1855)
Institution Canivet, Nîmes (1845l1847)
Occupations
novelist
soldier (Garde Nationale ∙ Franco-Prussian War)
short-story writer
teacher
private secretary (to Duc de Morny)
poet (show all 7)
playwright
Relationships
Daudet, Léon (son)
Daudet, Ernest (brother)
Organizations
Duc de Morny (Secrétaire particulier, 18 60 l 18 65)
Collège d'Alès (Répétiteur, 18 55 l 18 57)
L'Événement, Journal (Collaborateur)
Le Figaro, Journal (Collaborateur)
L'Universel, Journal (Collaborateur)
Paris-Journal, Journal (Collaborateur)
Short biography
Alphonse Daudet né en 1840 à Nîmes et mort en 1897 à Paris (France) est un auteur français de romans, récit et nouvelles de moeurs et sentiments principalement inspirés de la Provence. "Les lettres de mon Moulin" (1869) est son oeuvre majeure.

Né d'un père industriel en soierie, il grandit à Nîmes avant que la famille ne s'installe à Lyon ou il est inscrit au Lycée Ampère. La faillite de son père l'empêche de passer son baccalauréat et il devient répétiteur (Maître d'études) au collège d'Alès en 1855.

En 1858, Alphonse Daudet rejoint son frère Ernest à Paris pour tenter d'y faire carrière dans la littérature. Il rencontre alors Frédéric Mistral et collabore à plusieurs journaux. De 1860 à 1865, il est secrétaire particulier du Duc de Morny. S'inspirant de son enfance, il écrit des contes qui rencontrent un certain succès. En 1866 paraissent sous forme de feuilletons dans les journaux les première "Lettres de mon moulin" qui seront compilées dans un recueil en 1969. Parmi celles-ci, certaines histoires deviendront célèbres : La Chèvre de monsieur Seguin, Le Curé de Cucugnan, ...

Daudet réalise également des romans tels que la trilogie de Tartarin de Tarascon (1872 - 1890). Dans ses contes fantaisistes et ses romans de moeurs contemporaines, Alphonse Daudet montre toujours un certain réalisme.

Ayant contracté la syphilis dans ses jeunes années, Alphonse Daudet décède en 1897 de complications liées à cette maladie. Il est enterré au cimetière du Père-Lachaise à Paris.

A sa mort en 1896, Edmond de Goncourt charge, par testament, Alphonse Daudet et Léon Hennique de fonder un groupe littéraire décernant chaque année un prix à un ouvrage écrit en prose. Une bataille juridique s'engagera avec la famille Goncourt jusqu'en 1900. La charge d'Alphonse Daudet sera reprise par son fils Léon et le premier prix de l'académie Goncourt sera attribué en 1903.

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The only tale I enjoyed and remember is the one about the cat. And of course, The TellTale Heart, but that one I already knew. All in all, this collection was a disappointment.
 
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Adaptação de Cartas do meu moinho, esse livro retrata a França Provençal reunindo diversos contos e crônicas narrados por um homem que deixou a agitada Paris para descobrir beleza e novidade no interior. Divertido, leve e repleto de reflexões intrínsecas é uma leitura encantadora
 
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Works
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Members
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Popularity
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Rating
½ 3.6
Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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Favorited
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