Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a noted French novelist of great versatility, born at Nîmes, of poor parents. He early selected literature as his career in life, wrote poems and plays, and contributed to the Figaro and other journals. He worked up into his novels characters and situations that had come under his own observation, often in too satirical a vein to become universally popular. Many critics likened him to Dickens in his choice of subjects and style of treatment. He died suddenly in 1897.

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