Talk:Alphonse Daudet

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"He was the father of Leon Daudet" this should be verified I believe he was his uncle. Ericd

The fact that he was his father is mentioned in http://fr.encyclopedia.yahoo.com/articles/ma/ma_1996_p0.html olivier 12:58 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Rough and ready mini-clean up done

I was a bit shocked at the state of this article when I dropped by looking for basic info on the man. Quite a bit of the text I had to remove because of irreparable WP:OR and WP:ESSAY, weasel words and opinion. What remains lacks both personal and literary info and what there is lacks citations and refs for many of the assertions and analysis. Worse still it is missing literary criticism especially re. comparisons to Charles Dickens and description/discussion of his contemporary popular acclaim/success compared with any subsequent examination. It also appears to have been a bit too carelessly translated from French in many places so I cleaned up the grammar and re-wrote a few lines where I could. The article really does need taking in hand entirely by an expert. So I've templated it and now will do my best to find such a one in a project or somewhere. Wish me luck! Plutonium27 (talk) 21:14, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Early life

I restored the last sentence of paragraph one of the section, which in June 2018 read "thinking he was still among his unruly pupils.[2] These experiences and others were reflected in his novel Le Petit Chose." In Sept. 2018 it was vandalized to "thinking he was friend of Cervantes".

However I don't know how to restore the original footnote [2}: "unruly pupils.[2]" It's available in the June 2018 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alphonse_Daudet&direction=prev&oldid=860275607#Early_life — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddeman (talk • contribs) 21:09 26 June 2021 (UTC)

"Sappho" novel found indecent and bookseller jailed for 1 year

From: The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kan.), March 3, 1900 - Page 6 - From the Library of Congress full newspaper images archive

"SAPHO" DEALER JAILED.

Book Dealer in Philadelphia Is Given a Year in the County Prison.

Philadelphia, Pa., March 3. "Sapho," Daudet's novel, was today adjudged an immoral publication by a jury in the quarter sessions court and was instrumental in consigning Frederick Kohler, a local dealer in books and stationery, to the county prison for one year. Lieut. O'Brien, in citizen's cl ithing, purchased a copy of "Sapho" from Kohler. After the lieutenant had examined the book he had a warrant issued for Kohler's arrest. The case was tried today before Judge Finletter, the oldest jurist on the local bench. The jury retired. For more than an hour the jurors investigated the exhibits and then agreed on the verdict. 2600:1700:D591:5F10:4C60:7BA2:B2C9:67D9 (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Was Daudet anti-Semitic?

I am surprised that this article stated as facts that Daudet was a monarchist and anti-Semite. I am not sure about the first assertion, but my Penguin edition of "Letters from My Windmill" includes a lengthy discussion of the charge that Daudet was anti-Semitic, and makes a strong case that this was a characteristic of his son (not nephew!!) Leon and not of Daudet's. My reading of Daudet's work also makes me doubt that he was a monarchist; the short story "The Siege of Berlin" would suggest that he was not a Bonapartist. I can't categorically refute either charge, but I think that if the article is going to make these charges against Daudet, more evidence is needed. 167.102.146.2 (talk) 15:04, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]