ALPHONSE DAUDET

Alphonse Daudet, born in Provence, in 1840, is one of the most brilliant représentatives of modem French novelists. His style is sparkling with life and wit, his imagination bright and dazzling. Among his works may be named : Le Nabab, Les Rois en Exil, Numa Roumestan, Sapho, L* Immortel, Jack ; Le petit Chose, a very pathetic semi-autobiography ; Lettres de mon Moulin, Contes du Lundi, Tartarin de Tarascon, Tartarin sur les Alpes, Les Femmes d'Artistes.

Page 36. — 1 . Mon Daniel ... Le petit Chose, Jack, Tartarin . . . La Reine Frédérique, etc. Ail thèse are allusions to heroes of Daudet 's novels. Daniel was the name of Le petit Chose, and hère, as it is easy to see, J. Lemaître means Daudet himself when he speaks of Le petit Chose. La Reine Frédérique is the heroine of Les Rois en Exil.

2. Les quêteurs de modernité : the readers in quest of modemity, Le. readers vu ho wish to find in a novel pictures and characters *orrowed from the time s they live in.

3. Le recherché : the farfetched. Un style recherché: a f?r-fetched style.

4. Homo sum et nihil humani a me alienum puto \ I cm a man, and nothing pertaining to man is foreign to me. A quotation borrowed from Terence, a comic Latin author of the second century before Christ.

Page 37. — 1. Y . . . compte : find there what they want.

2. M. Cherbuliez. A novelist, member of the French Academy. He stands among the best writers of the second rank. He is bright and witty, full of fine humor. Among his numerous novels are : Le Comte Kostia, Meta Holdenis, Faute Méré, La Ferme du Choquard, Olivier Mau* gant, Miss Rovel.