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Daudet (ALPHONSE d d a French novelist)

ALPHONSE (dō-dā'), a French novelist; born in Nîmes, May 13, 1840. He sought fortune in Paris in 1857; two booklets of poems were failures; two plays "The Last Idol" (1862) and "The White Daisy" (1865) had more success. His charming little stories, "The Little Thing" (1868); "Letters from My Mill" (1869); "Monday Tales" (1873), established his reputation; and his next novel "Fromont Jr. and Risler Sr." (1874)-was trans- ALPHONSE DAUDET lated into all the European languages.

Not less celebrated are: "The Nabob" (1878); "Kings in Exile" (1880); "Numa Roumestan" (1882); "Sappho" (1884). He struck a humorous vein in the "Tartarin" series: "Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin"; "Tartarin in the Alps"; "Port Tarascon." He wrote two volumes of reminiscences. "Thirty Years of Paris" (1888), and "Recollections of a Man of Letters" (1889). He died in Paris, Dec. 16, 1897.