“s Mon frère et moi. There is a good deal of autobiographical detail in Daudet”
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Alphonse Daudet
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist and writer of short stories. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
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culture · French novelist (1840–1897) · writer · playwright · poet · novelist · autobiographer · screenwriter · prose writer · short story writer · also Alphonse Daudet, Daudet
Born 13 May 1840 · Died 16 December 1897 · Q228546
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1897· 2 entries
Died 1897-12-16.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1886· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1886).
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1876· 1 entry
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1875· 1 entry
Awarded Jouy Prize (1875).
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1870· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1870).
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1867· 1 entry
Daudet married Julia Allard, author of Impressions de nature et d'art (1879), L'Enfance d'une Parisienne (1883), and some literary studies written under the pseudonym "Karl Steen"
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1866· 1 entry
Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin (Letters from My Windmill), written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers
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1856· 1 entry
Left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began his career as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-05-13.
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