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Léon Daudet
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| Born | Alphonse Marie Vincent Léon Daudet 16 November 1867 Paris, France |
| Died | 2 July 1942 (aged 74) Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vichy France |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist, journalist |
| Nationality | French |
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Jeanne Hugo
(m. 1891; div. 1895) |
| Children | Charles Daudet |
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Léon Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 16 November 1867 – 2 July 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active monarchist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
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Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet, his mother was Julia Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist. He was educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand, and afterwards studied medicine, a profession which he abandoned. Léon Daudet married Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter of Victor Hugo, in 1891 and thus entered into the higher social and intellectual circles of the French Third Republic. He divorced his wife in 1895 and became a vocal critic of the Republic, the Dreyfusard camp, and of democracy in general.
Together with Charles Maurras (who remained a lifelong friend), he co-founded (1907) and was an editor of the nationalist, integralist periodical Action Française. A deputy from 1919 to 1924, he failed to win election as a senator in 1927 – despite having gained prominence as the voice of the monarchists. When Maurras was released from prison after serving a sentence for verbally attacking Prime Minister Léon Blum, Daudet joined other political leaders Xavier Vallat, Darquier de Pellepoix, and Philippe Henriot to welcome him in the Vel' d'Hiv in July 1937.
Works
Novels
- Les Morticoles (1894).
- Le Voyage de Shakespeare (1896).
- Suzanne (1896).
- Sébastien Gouvès (1899).
- Les Deux Étreintes (1901).
- Le Partage de l'Enfant (1905).
- La Mésentente (1911).
- Le Lit de Procuste (1912).
- Le Cœur et l'Absence (1917).
- Dans la Lumière (1919).
- L'Amour est un Songe (1920).
- L'Entremetteuse (1921).
- Le Napus, Fléau de l'an 2227 (1927).
- Les Bacchantes (1931).
- Un Amour de Rabelais (1933).
- Médée (1935).
Essays
- L'Avant-guerre (1915).
- Contre l'Esprit Allemand de Kant à Krupp (1915).
- L'Hérédo, Essai sur le Drame Intérieur (1916).
- La Guerre Totale (1918).
- Le Poignard Dans le Dos: Notes sur l'Affaire Malvy (1918).
- Le Monde des Images: Suite de L'Hérédo (1919).
- Le Stupide XIXe Siècle (1922).
- Notre Provence (with Charles Maurras, 1933).
Pamphlets
- Le Nain de Lorraine - Raymond Poincaré (1930).
- Le Garde des Seaux - Louis Barthou (1930).
- Le Voyou De Passage - Aristide Briand (1930).
Miscellany
- Alphonse Daudet (1898).
- Souvenirs des Milieux Littéraires, Politiques, Artistiques et Médicaux (1914–1921):
- Fantômes et Vivants (1914).
- Devant la Douleur (1915).
- L'Entre-Deux-Guerres (1915).
- Salons et Journaux (1917).
- Au Temps de Judas (1920).
- Vers le Roi (1921).
- La Pluie de Sang (1932).
- Député de Paris (1933).
- Paris Vécu:
- Rive Droite (1929).
- Rive Gauche (1930).
- Quand Vivait mon Père (1940).
Works in English translation
- Alphonse Daudet (1898).
- Memoirs of Léon Daudet (1925).
- The Stupid Nineteenth Century (1928).
- Cloudy Trophy; the Romance of Victor Hugo (1938).
- The Tragic Life of Victor Hugo (1939).
- Clemenceau; a Stormy Life (1940).
- The Napus: The Great Plague of the Year 2227 (translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford, 2013).
- The Bacchantes: A Dionysian Scientific Romance (translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford, 2013).
Selected articles
- "The Overthrow of German Military Prestige," The Living Age, Vol. 302 (1919).
- "The Stupid Nineteenth Century," The Living Age, Vol. 312 (1922).
- "Sulla and His Destiny," The Living Age, Vol. 315 (1922).
- "Maeterlinck's Book on Ants," The Living Age, Vol. 339 (1930).
- "My Father Alphonse," The Living Age, Vol. 339 (1930).
See also
In Spanish: Léon Daudet para niños
