Alphonse Daudet
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Alphonse Daudet was a French writer who lived from 1840 to 1897 and created novels, plays, and poems that helped shape French literature during the 19th century. His works remain significant examples of French literary output from that era, though he is perhaps less widely known today than some of his contemporaries.
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Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. He was born in Nîmes, 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 Lyons, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the sout
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Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet ( French: [alfɔ̃s dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon and Lucien Daudet.
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1840 births1897 deaths19th-century French dramatists and playwrights19th-century French educators19th-century French letter writers19th-century French male writers19th-century French novelists19th-century French poets19th-century French short story writersAlphonse DaudetBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryCommons link from Wikidata