THE French have about many matters a way of feeling that is not ours, and M. Ernest Daudet’s little volume 1 illustrates some of these differences. He is the brother of the brilliant author of the ...

This short novel represents Alphonse Daudet's general reflection on family life since the advent of the Loi Naquet of 1884 which reinstated the possibility of divorce, and his particular warning to ...

Are words actually any use to describe what pain really feels like?" French novelist Alphonse Daudet once wrote, while in a long, agonizing physical decline. "Words only come when everything is over, ...

In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet Edited and translated by Julian Barnes (Alfred A. Knopf, 87 pp, $13) The language requirement in American high schools has always been something of a curricular ...

French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), who suffered from tertiary syphilis and wrote of his pain in "La Doulou." Colorized engraving, c. 1892. Source: Bridgeman Images, used with permission ...