Alphonse Daudet

Biography

Alphonse Daudet is born in Nimes on May 13rd, 1840. After having followed the courses of the Canivet institution to Nimes, it enters in sixth to the Ampère college. Alphonse must give up passing his baccalaureat because of the ruin into 1856 of his father, then trading in silk trade. He becomes Master of study to the college of Alès. This painful experiment will inspire its first novel to him, Small the Thing (1868). Daudet joined then his/her brother in Paris and a bohemian life carries out to it. It publishes in 1858 a collection of worms, In love the . The following year, it meets the poet Frederic Mistral. It has its entry in some literary living rooms, collaborates in several newspapers, in particular Paris-Newspaper , Universal the and Le Figaro . In 1860, it returns to the service of the duke of Morny (influential character of the Second Empire), as secretary. This last leaves him much spare time which it occupies to write of the tales, of the chronicles. This one died suddenly in 1865: this event was the decisive turn of the career of Alphonse.

After this event, Daudet was devoted to the writing, not only as chronicler with the newspaper Le Figaro but also as novelist. Then, after having gone on a journey in Provence, Alphonse started to write the first texts which will belong to the Lettres of my Mill . He was its first success in 1862 - 1865, with the Dernière Idol , wedding cake in Odéon and written in collaboration with Ernest Manuel - pseudonym of Ernest Lépine. Then, it obtained, by the director of the newspaper the Event , the authorization to publish them like serial during all the summer of the year 1866, under the title of Chroniques of Provence .

Some of the accounts of the Lettres of my mill remained among the most popular stories of our literature, like the Goat of Mr Seguin , the Three low Masses or the Elixir of the reverend father Gaucher . The first true novel of Alphonse Daudet was Small the Thing writes in 1868. It is about the Autobiographical novel of Alphonse insofar as he evokes his past of Master of study to the college of Alès (in the Gard, in the north of Nimes). It is in 1874 that Alphonse decided to write social novels like: young Fromont and elder Risler but also Jack (1876), the Nabob (1877), Kings in exile (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881) or Immortal the (1883). During this work of novelist and playwright (he wrote seventeen parts), he did not forget therefore his work of storyteller: he wrote in 1872 Tartarin de Tarascon , which was its mythical character. the tales of Monday (1873), a collection of tales on the War free-Prussian, also testify to its taste for this kind and the marvellous accounts.

Daudet undergoes the first attacks of a terminal illness of the spinal-cord, but continues to publish until 1895. He dies on December 16th, 1897 with Paris, at the 57 years age.

Chronology

Work first

By categories

Romance

the Novel of the Red Hood . Michel Levy, 1862.
Small the Thing . Hetzel, 1868. Text in line
Tartarin de Tarascon , 1872. Text in Young line
Fromont and Elder Risler , 1874
Jack . Dentu, 1876
the Nabob . Carpenter, 1877

Collections of tales and news

Letters of my mill , 1870. Text in line
Tales of Monday , 1873

New

" Walks in Afrique". Le Monde illustrated , December 27th, 1862.
" The mule of Cadi". Le Monde illustrated, January 3rd and 10th 1863

" The Good god of Chemillé which is neither for nor contre" (legend of Touraine). the Event , July 21st, 1872. Text in line

" Singe". the Event , August 12th, 1872. Text in line

" The Achille" father;. the Event , August 19th, 1872. Text in line

" Salvette and Bernadou". the Public property , January 21st, 1873. Text in line

" Cabecilla". the Public property , April 22nd, 1873. Text in line

" Wood' stown" (tale of fantasy). the Public property , May 27th, 1873. Text in line

Theater

the Last Idol , drama in an act and prose, with Ernest Lépine. Paris, Theater of Odéon, February 4th, 1862. Part entered to the repertory of the Comédie-Française in 1904.

Absent the , music of Poise. Paris, Op3era Comique, October 26th, 1864.

the white Eyelet , with Ernest Lépine. Paris, Th3e4atre Fran1cais, April 8th, 1865.

Older brother , with Ernest Lépine. Paris, Theater of the Light comedy, December 19th, 1867

Dye stick Tavernier . Paris, the Ambiguous one, January 29th, 1872.

Arlésienne , play in three acts, according to the news of Daudet, music of Georges Bizet. Paris, Theater of the Light comedy, Young October 1st, 1872

Fromont and Elder Risler , adapt. novel of Daudet by Daudet and Belot. Paris, Theater of the Light comedy, September 16th, 1876

Jack , according to the novel of Daudet. Paris, Theater of Odéon, January 11th, 1881.

the Nabob . Paris, Theater of the Light comedy, January 30th, 1880.

By chronological order

} series in the Event , 1866 | | |- |1870 | Tartarin de Tarascon |Novel |

Publication in Le Figaro in February - March 1870
Dentu, 1872

| Text |1st shutter of the trilogy of Tarascon |- |1871 | Letters with absent a | | | | |- |1872 | Dye stick Tavernier |Play | | |Representation on January 29th, 1872 with the Ambiguous one |- |1872 | Arlésienne |Play in three acts, according to the news of Daudet. Music of Georges Bizet | | |Representation on October 1st, 1872 with the Theater of the Light comedy |- |1873 | Tales of Monday | |Lemerre, 1873 | | |- |1874 | Women of artists | | Lemerre, 1874 | | |- |1874 | Robert Helmont |Collection |

Publication in serial in the universal Monitor
Dentu, 1874

Publication in serial in the Public property
Carpenter, 1874

Publication in serial in the universal Monitor from June 15th to October 2nd, 1875
Dentu, 1876

Publication in serial in Time from July 12th to October 26th, 1877.
Carpenter, 1878

Publication in serial in Time from August 15th to October 10th, 1879
Dentu, 1879

Publication in serial in the Illustration from May 14th to July 16th, 1881.
Carpenter, 1881

Publication in serial in Le Figaro from December 6th, 1882 to January 9th, 1883
Dentu, 1883

| | |- |1884 | Sapho: Parisian manners | |

Publication in serial in the Echo of Paris from April 16th to May 28th, 1884
Carpenter, 1884

Publication in serial in the Illustration from May 5th to July 7th, 1888
Alphonse Lemerre, 1888

| Text | |- |1888 | Through my life and my books | |

Marpon and Flammarion, 1888

Publication in serial in the Echo of Paris from January 31st to February 24th, 1892
Flammarion, 1892

| | |- |1892 | the Liar |3-act play of Daudet and Leon Hennique | | |Representation on February 4th, 1892 with the Theater of the Gymnasium |- |1894 | Between the planks and the slope |Collection of theatrical chronicles | Dentu, 1894 | | |- |1894 | the Small Parish |Novel |

Publication in serial in the Illustration from October 20th, 1894 to January 26th, 1895
Lemerre, 1895

| | |- |1896 | Fédor |News | Guillaume, 1896 | | |- |1896 | Treasure of Arlatan | |

Publication in serial in Le Figaro of 1st at December 8th, 1896
Carpenter and Fasquelle, 1897

| | |- |1897 | Fédor |Collection of news | Flammarion, 1897 | | |- |1897 | Bread-winner |Novel |

Publication in serial in the Illustration starting from November 27th, 1897
Fasquelle, 1898

| |The publication will be completed after the death of Daudet on December 16th, 1897 |- |1929 | Doulou | | | |Posthumous work from which the writings date from the year 1888. Daudet described there its physical pains due to its terminal illness. |}

Works second, adaptations

Shortened texts

Cinema

Arlésienne (France, 1921). Réal and scén. Andre Antoine. Photogr. Leonce-Henry Burel. 1:15 duration. With Lucienne Bréval, Gabriel de Gravone, Ravet, Berthe Jalabert, Maguy Deliac, Charles of Rochefort, Maria Fabris…
Beautiful Nevers-native the (France, 1923). Réal. and scén. Jean Epstein. Photogr. Paul Guichard and Leon Donnot. Assembly Jean Epstein and Rene Alinat. 1:09 duration. With White Montel, Maurice Touze, Mrs Lacroix, Pierre Hot, max Bonnet, Jean-David Evremond…
Arlésienne (France, 1930). Réal. Jacques de Baroncelli. Assistant realizer Edmond T. Gréville. Scén. Jacques de Baroncelli. Photogr. Jean Bachelet, Louis Chaix and Rene Colas. Music: Georges Bizet. Musical Dir. Roland Manual. Decorations Robert Gys. With Jose Noguero, German Dermoz, White Montel, Charles Vanel, Maurice Schutz, Jim Gerald, Jean Mercanton…

Card-index of Alphonse Daudet on IMDB

Television

Cartoons

Letters of my mill (Volume 1). Adaptation and Mittéï drawings. Dupuis, 1979. (Best accounts of the newspaper of Spirou). ISBN 2-8001-0652-2
Letters of my mill (Volume 2). Adaptation and Mittéï drawings. Dupuis, 1982. (Best accounts of the newspaper of Spirou). ISBN 2-8001-0942-4
Letters of my mill (Volume 3). Adaptation and Mittéï drawings. Dupuis, 1985. (Best accounts of the newspaper of Spirou). ISBN 2-8001-1171-2
Small the Thing . I Bouquine , May 1993, n° 111.
the Goat of Mr Seguin . I Bouquine , February 1996, n° 144.
Letters of my mill (Integral). Adaptation and Mittéï drawings. Joker editions, 2002. ISBN 2872652167
Tartarin de Tarascon . Adaptation and drawings Pierre Guilmard; deliver audio read by Yvan Verschueren. Adonis, 2007,64 p. (Novels of always). ISBN 9789953493039

Audio versions

the Goat of Mr Seguin /Alphonse Daudet; voice of Pierre Brasseur. Paris: Adès; Maurepas: distrib. Adès, 1987. 1 deliver-disc: 45 T. (Small the ménestrel).
the Goat of Mr Seguin /Henri Tomasi; Alphonse Daudet; voice of Michel Galabru; songs Jacqueline Marshal; Control and chamber orchestra of the O.R.T. F.; Jacques Jouineau, to dir. Paris: Adès; Maurepas: distrib. Adès, 1990. 1 audio case: Dolby. (Escape youth).
Letters of my mill according to the work of Alphonse Daudet; voice of Franck Fernandel. Villetaneuse: Sail; Villetaneuse: distrib. Sail France, 1991. 1 compact disk (1. 6 min 15 S).
Cabano ; Cabro of mossu seguin ; the Secrecy of meste Cournilho ; Miolo dou papo /Alphonse Daudet; not mentioned. Avignon: Departmental center of teaching documentation (Vaucluse); Avignon: distrib. Departmental center of teaching documentation (Vaucluse), 1991. 1 audio case.

A tarnished fame

Alphonse Daudet, prototype of the writer of Provence, spent less than one year of his life to Fontvieille and forever inhabited the mill which the tourists visit.

Plagiarism, negro and works of collaboration

Many texts are allotted to Alphonse Daudet whereas it is not the author or that it wrote them in collaboration with others. Some Letters of my mill , among most known like the Goat of Mr Seguin , the Old men , and others were written by his/her friend Paul Arène. The first edition of the Lettres of my mill was signed besides of their two authors: Paul Arena and Alphonse Daudet. the Priest of Cucugnan , like Daudet writes it itself in the text, is a simple a little shortened translation of a history written by Roumanille in Provençal. Roumanille had taken as a starting point itself another author, Blanchot de Brennas. As for Tartarin on the Alps , it is feather of Hugues the Russet-red. Julia Daudet took part in the work of her husband. In 1869, charges of plagiarism appear against Alphonse Daudet who thinks a time to give up the literature but his wife opposes it. In 1876, Daudet gains the lawsuit the opponent with Gaston Klein, who wanted to be made recognize like one of the authors of the theatrical adaptation of young Fromont and elder Risler . In 1882, Alphonse Daudet fights in duel against the journalist Albert Delpit who had written that it was not likely any to enter to the French Academy.

Anti-semitism

The anti-semitism of Alphonse Daudet shows through in the portrait which it draws up of one of his characters, the usurer Augustus Cahn in Salvette and Bernadou , tale of Christmas (1873): What devil the old usurer does it hope to make of all that? Would he celebrate Christmas, him too? Would it have brought together his/her friends, his family, for drinking with the German fatherland? … But not. Everyone knows well that the Cahn old man does not have a fatherland. Its Vaterland with him, it is its safe. It does not have a family either, not friends; only creditors. Its sons, its associates rather, have left for three months with the army. They adulterate over there behind the vans of Landwehr, selling brandy, buying pendulums, and, the evenings of battle, being gone from there to turn over the pockets of deaths, to break the bags fallen to the ditches from the roads. It is important, of course, to put in perspective this text in a general context unfavorable to the Jews of France.

In 1886, it lends money to Edouard Drumont, future founder of the antisemitic Ligue of France, to make it possible this last to publish in its account a violent one lampoon: Jewish France . He dies into full Affaire Dreyfus, while having had time to post convictions Anti-supporter of Dreyfus are in spite of his proximity with Emile Zola, which will pronounce his funeral oration besides with the cemetery of the Lachaise Father.

Family illustrations

Alphonse Daudet is the father of Leon and Lucien Daudet. He is the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. See this site for the genealogy of Alphonse Daudet (ardéchoise of its ascent connects). See also this other site.

Family tree going down

Jacques Vincent Daudet (1806-1875), Tisserand and negotiating in silk trade X 1829 Marie Adelaide (known as Adeline) Reynaud (1805-1882) │ │ │ └──> Henri Daudet (1832-1856) │ │ │ └──> Ernest Daudet (1837-1921), writer and journalist │ │ │ └──> Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), journalist, storyteller, novelist, playwright │ X 1867 Julia Allard (1844-1940), wife and collaborator of Alphonse Daudet. │ │ │ └──> Leon Daudet (1867-1942), writer, journalist and politician │ │ X 1891-1895 Jeanne Hugo , grand-daughter of Victor Hugo │ │ X 1903 Marthe Allard (1878-1960), journalist with the French Action under the pseudonym of “Pampille” │ │ │ │ │ └──> Dr. François Daudet (known as François Leon-Daudet), doctor and journalist French │ │ │ │ │ └──> Philippe Daudet (1909-1923) │ │ │ └──> Lucien Daudet (1878-1946), French literary man │ │ │ └──> Edmée Daudet (1886-?). Godfather: Edmond de Goncourt. │ │ └──> Anna Daudet (1848-?). X 1874 Leon Allard

Members

Brother:

Ernest Daudet , writer and French journalist, born with Nimes in 1837, died in the Small-Flagstones in 1921, older brother of Alphonse Daudet.

Wife:

Julia Daudet (1844-1940), Mrs Alphonse Daudet, wife and collaborator of Alphonse Daudet.

Children:

Leon Daudet , writer, journalist and French politician, born with Paris in 1867, died in Saint-Rémy-of-Provence in 1942, oldest son of Alphonse Daudet;
Lucien Daudet , French literary man, born with Paris in 1878, died in 1946, wire junior by Alphonse Daudet.

Grandchildren:

Dr. François Daudet (known as François Leon-Daudet), doctor and journalist French, wire of Leon Daudet;
Philippe Daudet , born in 1909, mysteriously dead in 1923, wire of Leon Daudet.

Daughter-in-law:

Marthe Daudet (1878-1960), born Allard. Marry of Leon Daudet, journalist of the French Action under the pseudonym of “Pampille”.

Daudétiens places

Residences of the author

Daudet, born in Nimes in 1840, grows a few years in Gard, then arrives at Paris after briefs stays at Alès and Lyon.

Nimes (family home of Daudet):

Sabran House, 24 Large-courses (of the birth of Alphonse Daudet in 1840 until 1844-1845).
Street Graverol (as from 1844-1845 to 1847)
Road of Avignon (of 1847 to 1848)
Street Séguier (of 1848 to 1849. Vincent Daudet settled in Lyon where its family will join it in 1849).

Lyon: 2 rue de Castries (1849-1857).
Paris: Daudet will pass from the poor districts to the beautiful quarters:

2 rue de Tournon
street Bonaparte
street of the West
street of Amsterdam
passage of the Twelve Houses, in the old alley of the Widows (which occurred Montaigne)
24 rue Pavée
18 place des Vosges
41 rue de l'Université
31 rue de Bellechasse.
3 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75006 Paris (residence of Alphonse and Julia Daudet of 1880 to 1885).

Vacation resorts

Farmhouse of Vignasse, with Saint-Alban-Auriolles, the south of Aubenas: Alphonse Daudet spent his holidays " there; My uncle had a large orchard. And me, I had a cousine". The house was preserved perfectly, in the state where the author knew it. One finds there many portraits of the Daudet family, manuscripts and texts of his hand in impressive quantity (more than 12.000), and, among other memories, the leather portfolio marked with initial of the author.
Castle of Montauban, with Fontvieille: the Ambroy family received Alphonse Daudet there on several occasions. This last came there to write, for " to begin again themselves with nature and to cure themselves of Paris and its fièvres". A permanent exposure, Hello Mr Daudet , evokes the writer and his work.

Places of inspiration

Cucugnan : the village, capped of its windmill, in the south-east of Carcassonne, owes its fame in Alphonse Daudet who took as a starting point the poet of language of Oc Achille Mir, celebrates félibre local, for its character of country priest.
the Saint-Pierre mill (or Ribet Mill), known as " Mill of Alphonse Daudet" , on a height surrounding the village of Fontvieille. This mill, built in 1814, is one of the last to have ceased turning, in 1915. Contrary to the local legend, Daudet it forever inhabited, even if he wrote on this building: “A ruin this mill; collapsing remains of stones and old boards, which one had not put at the wind since years and which lay, useless like a poet, whereas around on the coast flour-milling thrived and transfered with all wings. ”. Beside this mill a small museum in homage to the writer is.

Burial

the writer rests with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris. Its vault is in the 26e division and its bust decorates one of the angles of it.

Homage

Association of the friends of Alphonse Daudet

Founded in 1923 by EP Cadilhac and Lucien Daudet, wire of the writer, under the presidency of Marcel Pagnol, the purpose of the Association of the Friends of Alphonse Daudet is to promote the life and the work of Alphonse Daudet.

Chaired since 1987 per Roger Ripoll, professor emeritus with the University of Aix-Marseilles and editor of works of Daudet in the Library of the Pleiad, it brings together today members come from all horizons, academics or not, the francophile in love ones with the 19th century.

The members of association are accustomed to finding themselves each year with Fontvieille in May to continue to make live the spirit of Daudet. They also take part in the organized festivals with Fontvieille at the time of on August 15th.

Association publishes an annual bulletin, Small the Thing , which presents the acts of the annual conference of Fontvieille as well as articles on Alphonse Daudet.

The seat of Association is located at the town hall of Fontvieille.

Daudet price

Each year Radio Courtesy gives the Prix Daudet to the personality which has, according to the listeners of this radio, best served the French language, price decreed in the honor of Alphonse Daudet and his son Leon. One can however doubt that this price is decreed in the future since, on March 31st, 2007, the heir to the Daudet family publicly withdrew with this radio the authorization that it had given him to make use of his name.

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