Robert Helmont

Robert Helmont

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781530112814

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Robert Helmont (1874; English: Robert Helmont, The Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 (1892)) is a novella by French author Alphonse Daudet. It is partly based on Daudet's actual experiences during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, as described in the Preface. The book was originally published by Dentu in the 1873 Musel Universel but received little notice. It was re-published in 1891 with illustrations by "Picard and Mont�gut". The forest S�nart is the same described in his novel Jack and contains some of the same characters.Robert Helmont breaks his leg on the day of the start of the war. Unable to flee to Paris ahead of the advancing "Saxons", he decides to hide in an hermitage deep in the S�nart woods. For the next 5 months he has a series of adventures, as told by Daudet in colorful and naturalistic prose. Historically accurate details about costume, architecture, food and mannerisms provide an excellent painting of the time. Hot air balloons, messenger pigeons and late night cut-throat murders lend the novel an air of high adventure, mixed with a love of nature and solitude.


Fromont and Risler

Fromont and Risler

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781359931986

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The Immortal - Or, One of the Forty

The Immortal - Or, One of the Forty

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-16

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781516927265

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Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 - 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.Daudet was born in Nîmes, France His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer - a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began his career as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. The position proved to be intolerable and Daudet said later that for months after leaving Alès he would wake with horror, thinking he was still among his unruly pupils.On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, only some three years his senior, who was trying, "and thereto soberly", to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and his poems were collected into a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with a fair reception. 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 individuality and promise. Morny, Napoleon III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of his secretaries - a post which he held till Morny's death in 1865 - and showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet had put his foot on the road to fortune.


The Immortal; Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877

The Immortal; Or, One Of The

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Alpha Edition

Published: 2022-07-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789356313712

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Fromont and Risler

Fromont and Risler

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Aegypan

Published: 2008-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781603124201

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CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist and playwright. His father was a silk manufacturer who suffered reverses and lost his property. Daudet took a post as a schoolteacher at Ales, Gard, but found it intolerable, and moved to Paris to live with his brother, Ernest, who was working as a journalist. Daudet wrote poetry and several plays, and secured employment as a secretary to Morny, a Minister of Napoleon III. "Fromont and Risler" is a novel that recalls Zola. Sidonie Chbe is to marry Risler, an older man. Risler is an employee of Fromont, a manufacturer of wallpaper, and in addition to being engaged to Sidonie, he has been elevated to partner, and the firm will be known as Fromont and Risler. But Sidonie has long been envious of the wealth of the Fromonts, and has been having an affair with Georges Fromont, nephew of the founder and heir to the business, though Georges is married to Claire. This romantic triangle will lead to tragedy and ruin.


Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin of Tarascon

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781358463105

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Tartarin de Tarascon

Tartarin de Tarascon

Author: Alphonse Daudet

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781356961962

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.