Daudet
Daudet names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Daudet ALPHONSE (dō-dā')
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Daudet Alphonse, al-fons do-da (1840-1897)
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Alphonse, al-fons do-da (1840-1897), a French novelist. He was born at Nimes, and educated at the Lyons Lycee. He went to Paris and began to write verse when about seventeen years of age. His work met with some degree of success and he continued to write, contributing both prose and poetry to various periodicals. From 1862 to 1872 he produced a number of dramas which were only moderately successful. He produced during the remainder of his life many novels and humorous writings. Among those most popular in America are Jack, Kings in Exile, Letters from My Mill, Tartarin of Tarascon, a good humored satire directed toward the author's compatriots, and Tartarin on the Alps.
Daudet LEON, a French author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEON, a French author, in born 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, these last chiefly in the "Figaro," "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 de Shakspeare"; "Suzanne"; "L'Avant guerre"; "Hors du Joug Allemand"; "Le Cœur et l'absence."
Daudet ERNEST, a French novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ERNEST, a French novelist; brother of Alphonse Daudet; born in Nîmes, May 31, 1837. His most notable novels are: "The Venus of Gordes"; "The Bloom of Sin"; "Martha." He is author of an autobiographical sketch, "My Brother and Myself" (1882); and has writen some historical sketches, as a " History of the Royalist Conspiracies in the South During the Revolution"; " History of the Emigration." "The Tragedies and Comedies of History" (1912).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could describe Léon Daudet neutrally as "a French author" who had founded the royalist journal l'Action Française in 1908; the rest of his career made him one of the most notorious polemicists of the Third Republic. He sat as a deputy from 1919, was imprisoned in 1927 after accusing the police over his son Philippe's death, escaped to Belgium, and ended his life at Vichy-era Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1942, his movement long since condemned by the Vatican. Alphonse's own standing has narrowed since 1921: the Tartarin books and "Letters from My Mill" are still read in France, but the big society novels are not, and he is now perhaps best known in English through his private notes on living with syphilis, published as "La Doulou" and translated by Julian Barnes as "In the Land of Pain" in 2002. Ernest, written of in the present tense by Collier's, in fact died that same year.
Written for this edition, 2026.