The Works Of Alphonse Daudet: Sappho, To Which Is Added Between The Flies And The Footlights - Tapa dura

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Alphonse Daudet est ne dans le Gard le 13 mai 1840. Il quitte tot les bancs de l ecole pour venir a dix-sept ans a Paris, en quete d une carriere litteraire. Il publie ses poemes ("Les Amoureuses" en 1858), puis ses romans ("Le Petit Chose", "Tartarin de Tarascon", "Sapho" ) qui fondent, petit a petit, sa notoriete. Il travaille comme journaliste et secretaire particulier, et rencontre, dans les salons, les grandes figures de son temps, notamment Flaubert, Zola et Edmond de Goncourt, avec qui il noue une relation intime.