Daudet, Léon

Daudet, Léon
Daudet, Léon. 1867-1942.
French writer known for his highly charged political essays and numerous volumes of memoirs.

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▪ French journalist and author
in full  Alphonse-marie-léon Daudet 
born Nov. 16, 1867, Paris, France
died July 1, 1942, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
 French journalist and novelist, the most virulent and bitterly satirical polemicist of his generation in France, whose literary reputation rests largely upon his journalistic work and his vivid memoirs.

      The son of the novelist Alphonse Daudet, Léon studied medicine before turning to journalism with contributions to Le Figaro and Le Gaulois. His first novel, L'Astre noir (1893; “The Black Heavenly Body”), was followed by a scathing indictment of the medical profession, Les Morticoles (1894). His novel Le Voyage de Shakespeare (1896) was more successful than many that followed it.

      Daudet's major journalistic achievement began in 1908, when he and Charles Maurras refashioned L'Action française into a daily paper of avowedly reactionary, nationalist, and royalist opinion. Daudet had published an antirepublican satire, Le Pays des partementeurs, in 1901, and his contributions to L'Action française showed the same satirical and Rabelaisian flavour.

      Among Daudet's other works, the most important are L'Avant-Guerre (1913; “Before the War”), which shows prescience as well as conservatism; Le Monde des images (1919; “The World of Images”), a stubbornly anti-Freudian work on psychology; and Le Stupide XIXe Siècle (1922; The Stupid XIXth Century), a violent condemnation of the false gods worshiped in France after 1789. Daudet's six volumes of memoirs, Souvenirs des milieux littéraires, politiques, artistiques, et médicaux (1914–21; selection translated in Memoirs of Léon Daudet), are informative, vivid, and partisan. He also wrote a critical work, Mes Idées esthétiques (1939).

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