Daudet

[ doh-dey, daw-; French doh-de ]

noun

1. Al·phonse [a, l-, fawns], 1840–97, French novelist and short-story writer.
2. his son Lé·on [ley-, awn], 1867–1942, French journalist and novelist.

Daudet

/ dodɛ /

noun

1. DaudetAlphonse18401897MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writerTHEATRE: dramatist Alphonse (alfɔ̃s). 1840–97, French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist: noted particularly for his humorous sketches of Provençal life, as in Lettres de mon moulin (1866)

Example Sentences

This trait in the man of the Midi is one that Daudet has brought out humorously in the Tartarin books.

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They make you think of Daudet's statement concerning the man of the south, "When he is not talking, he is not thinking."

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Daudet approved of the Félibrige movement, though what he himself wrote in Provençal is insignificant.

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Daudet drew on his experiences, and on the notes he was always accumulating, more strenuously than he should have done.

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After the war, Daudet reappeared in Paris, greatly strengthened and ripened by his hermit-existence in the heart of Provence.

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