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La última clase y otros relatos [The Last Class and Other Stories]
Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897) - Alphonse Daudet nació el 13 de mayo de 1840 e Nîmes (Francia), en el seno de una familia de la pequeña burguesía. Sus padres se dedicaban al comercio de la seda. La familia Daudet acabó arruinada. Con posterioridad, Alphonse y su hermano Ernest se marcharon a París; allí Alphonse trabajó como secretario personal para el Duque de Morny, director de "Le Figaro", en el que comenzó a escribir. El Duque le inspiró la novela "El Nabab”. Una de sus obras más importantes fue la colección de cuentos "Cartas desde mi Molino” inspirados por su vivencia en tierras de la Provenza. Alphonse Daudet contrajo matrimonio en 1867 con la escritora Julia Allard con la que tuvo tres hijos. Participó en la Guerra Franco-Prusiana entre 1870 y 1871. Entre sus obras más destacadas están "Jack", "Safo", "El Inmortal" y, la popular trilogía de Tartarín, con "Tartarín de Tarascón”, "Tartarín en Los Alpes” y "Port Tarascón". Murió en París, a los 57 años, el 16 de diciembre de 1897.
LA ÚLTIMA CLASE … Y OTROS RELATOS - Daudet fue un escritor muy reconocido en el mundo literario de su tiempo. Se relacionaba con las personalidades más relevantes del mundo de las letras y de las artes del Flaubert, los hermanos Goncourt, Hugo, Zola, Renoir, Manet, Monet, etc. Una de sus obras más importantes fue “Los Cuentos del Lunes”, un libro de relatos inspirados, en su mayoría, en el sitio de París y en los acontecimientos de la Comuna.
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LA ÚLTIMA CLASE … Y OTROS RELATOS - Daudet fue un escritor muy reconocido en el mundo literario de su tiempo. Se relacionaba con las personalidades más relevantes del mundo de las letras y de las artes del Flaubert, los hermanos Goncourt, Hugo, Zola, Renoir, Manet, Monet, etc. Una de sus obras más importantes fue “Los Cuentos del Lunes”, un libro de relatos inspirados, en su mayoría, en el sitio de París y en los acontecimientos de la Comuna.
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Alphonse Daudet
1,880 books201 followersStories of life of French writer Alphonse Daudet of the naturalist school in his native Provence include
Lettres de mon moulin
(1869).
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. He was married to Julia Daudet and the father of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet, all writers.
Family on both sides belonged to the bourgeoisie. Vincent Daudet, the father, manufactured silk, but misfortune and failure dogged the man through life. A boyhood depressed Alphonse amid much truancy had. He spent his days mainly at Lyon, left in 1856, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south. The position proved intolerable. As Charles Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career, the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business haunted him in dreams, so after Daudet left Alès, he woke with horror, thinking for months that he still dwelt among his unruly pupils.
On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with Ernest Daudet, his brother only some three years his senior, who tried "soberly" to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), collected his poems and met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under energetic editorship of Cartier de Villemessant, and wrote two or three plays; those interested in literature began to recognize him as possessing individuality and promise. Morny, all-powerful minister of Napoleon III, appointed Daudet, who held a post of his secretaries till death of Morny in 1865, and Morny showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet put his foot on the road to fortune.
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Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. He was married to Julia Daudet and the father of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet, all writers.
Family on both sides belonged to the bourgeoisie. Vincent Daudet, the father, manufactured silk, but misfortune and failure dogged the man through life. A boyhood depressed Alphonse amid much truancy had. He spent his days mainly at Lyon, left in 1856, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south. The position proved intolerable. As Charles Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career, the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business haunted him in dreams, so after Daudet left Alès, he woke with horror, thinking for months that he still dwelt among his unruly pupils.
On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with Ernest Daudet, his brother only some three years his senior, who tried "soberly" to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), collected his poems and met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under energetic editorship of Cartier de Villemessant, and wrote two or three plays; those interested in literature began to recognize him as possessing individuality and promise. Morny, all-powerful minister of Napoleon III, appointed Daudet, who held a post of his secretaries till death of Morny in 1865, and Morny showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet put his foot on the road to fortune.
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