Daudet, Alphonse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and LImmortel (1888). Daudet was at once objective and personal, and his works, permeated by an engaging sense of humor, wistfulness...lettres and Trente ans de Paris, appeared in 1888. Harrowing diaries of his lingering death from syphilis, La Doulou, were not...