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Daudet (LEON a French author born)

LEON, a French author, born in 1867 and was educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand. He studied medicine for ten years, and in 1894 took up literature, since writing many novels and articles, articles, these last chiefly in the "Fi- "Gaulois," "Soleil" "Le Libre Parole."

In 1908 he founded with some friends the royalist journal, "l'Action Française."

He is a member of the Académie Goncourt. His works include: "Hœrès"; "Les Idées en marche"; "Le Voyage Voyage de Shakspeare"; "Suzanne"; guerre"; "Hors du Joug Allemand"; "Le Cœur et l'absence."

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