Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 - 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of writers L on Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Daudet was born in N mes, France His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer - a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and...
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