Fromont and Risler Volume III (Esprios Classics)

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Alphonse took to writing and his poems were collected into a small volume Les Amoureuses (1858). He obtained employment on Le Figaro then under Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship wrote two or three plays and began to be recognized among those interested in literature as possessing distinction and promise. In 1866 Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin written in Clamart near Paris and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille Provence won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books Le Petit Chose (1868) did not however produce popular sensation. It is in the main the story of his own earlier years told with much grace and pathos.