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Alphonse Daudet

1840–1897

Best known for bringing the warmth and color of Provence into French literature, this 19th-century writer mixed humor, tenderness, and sharp observation in stories that still feel vivid today. His work ranges from playful sketches and tales to novels with a darker, more realistic edge.

44 Audiobooks

Tartarin de Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet

Lettres de mon moulin

by Alphonse Daudet

Artists' Wives

by Alphonse Daudet

Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour

by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, Jean du Rébrac

The Nabob

by Alphonse Daudet

Contes de lundi

by Alphonse Daudet

Tartarin de Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet

Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant)

by Alphonse Daudet

Cartas de mi molino

by Alphonse Daudet

Tartarin of Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet

Tartarin on the Alps

by Alphonse Daudet

Le petit chose

by Alphonse Daudet

The Immortal; Or, One of the "Forty."

by Alphonse Daudet

Jack

by Alphonse Daudet

The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Alphonse Daudet

L'Immortel

by Alphonse Daudet

Les femmes d'artistes

by Alphonse Daudet

Numa Roumestan

by Alphonse Daudet

La Belle-Nivernaise: Histoire d'un vieux bateau et de son équipage

by Alphonse Daudet

The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by Alphonse Daudet

Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871

by Alphonse Daudet

Tartarin sur les Alpes

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont and Risler — Complete

by Alphonse Daudet

Sapho

by Alphonse Daudet

Kuvaelmia ja kertomuksia

by Alphonse Daudet

Port-Tarascon: Dernières aventures de l'illustre Tartarin

by Alphonse Daudet

Lettres de mon moulin

by Alphonse Daudet

Le nabab, tome II

by Alphonse Daudet

Taiteilijan avioliitto : Pariisilaisia kuvia

by Alphonse Daudet

Tarasconin Tartarin

by Alphonse Daudet

Kuninkaita maanpaossa II

by Alphonse Daudet

Kuninkaita maanpaossa I

by Alphonse Daudet

Numa Roumestan: Moeurs Parisiennes

by Alphonse Daudet

Le nabab, tome I

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont nuorempi ja Risler vanhempi: Parisin tapoja

by Alphonse Daudet

Maanantai-tarinoita: Valikoima

by Alphonse Daudet

Widger's Quotes and Images from Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet

by Alphonse Daudet

Nivernain kaunotar: Kertomus eräästä vanhasta aluksesta ja sen väestöstä

by Alphonse Daudet

Kirjeitä myllyltäni

by Alphonse Daudet

Pikku mies

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont and Risler — Volume 2

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont and Risler — Volume 1

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont and Risler — Volume 4

by Alphonse Daudet

Fromont and Risler — Volume 3

by Alphonse Daudet

About the author

Born in Nîmes, France, in 1840, Alphonse Daudet became a novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose writing helped make him one of the most widely read French authors of his time. He moved to Paris while still young, worked as a teacher and journalist, and gradually built a literary career.

Daudet is especially remembered for Letters from My Windmill and Tartarin of Tarascon, books that drew on southern French life with wit, charm, and a strong sense of place. He also wrote novels including Fromont jeune et Risler aîné and Sappho, showing that alongside his lighter, more humorous work, he could write with psychological depth and social realism.

He died in 1897, but his books have continued to travel well beyond his own century. Readers often come to him for the lively storytelling and memorable characters, then stay for the mix of warmth, irony, and feeling that gives his work its lasting appeal.