Ernest Daudet Explained

Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet (in French dodɛ/; 31 May 1837 – 21 August 1921) was a French journalist, novelist and historian.[1] Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brother was Alphonse Daudet.

Biography

Ernest Daudet was born in Nîmes, an old Roman city of Languedoc, France.[2] His father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk merchant whose lack of business sense eventually involved him in bankruptcy. His mother, Adeleine Reynaud, was descended from a respected Provençal family.[3] In 1857 he went to Paris with his brother in order to gain a livelihood through literary pursuits. For a time he managed the Journaux Officiels and the Petit Moniteur. He was also the secretary-editor of the Legislative Corps and chief of the Cabinet of the Senate.[4]

He died in Petites-Dalles in 1921, aged 84.

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Non-fiction

Theater

Miscellany

Works in English translation

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Notes and References

  1. "Daudet was immensely prolific without losing anything of meticulousness or analytical solidity. It is one of the disgraces of English scholarship that none of his historical works has found translators." — Beum, Robert (1997). "Ultra-Royalism Revisited: An Annotated Bibliography," Modern Age, Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 297.
  2. Sherard, Robert Harborough (1894). Alphonse Daudet: Biographical and Critical Study. London: Edward Arnold.
  3. Sherard (1894), pp. 9–10.
  4. "Ernest Daudet", Parisian Illustrated Review, Vol. 3, 1897, p. 320.
  5. "This well-documented book remains an essential source of information on the French political and secret police under the Restoration." — Cornick, Martyn & Peter Morris (1993). The French Secret Services. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, p. 15.