12 Facts About Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmee, Leon and Lucien Daudet.

Alphonse Daudet took to writing, and his poems were collected into a small volume, Les Amoureuses, which met with a fair reception.

Alphonse Daudet obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be recognized in literary communities as possessing distinction and promise.

Alphonse Daudet's creativeness resulted in characters that were real and typical.

Alphonse Daudet wrote for children, including La Belle Nivernaise, the story of an old boat and her crew.

In 1867 Alphonse Daudet married Julia Allard, author of Impressions de nature et d'art, L'Enfance d'une Parisienne, and some literary studies written under the pseudonym "Karl Steen".

Alphonse Daudet was far from faithful, and was one of a generation of French literary syphilitics.

Alphonse Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his subsequently paralysing disease.

Alphonse Daudet died in Paris on 16 December 1897, and was interred at that city's Pere Lachaise Cemetery.

Alphonse Daudet was a monarchist and a fervent opponent of the French Republic.

Alphonse Daudet was an antisemite, though less famously so than his son Leon.

Alphonse Daudet counted many antisemitic literary figures amongst his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic League of France and founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.