The Jack novel has become a famous world classic. In his literary life, he started with a fine sense of humor, a sensitive and poetic perspective, he later turned to realism.
He was born on May 13, 1840, in Nîmes, south of France. Growing up in this city, Daudet had a bleak childhood due to the nervousness of his silk-manufacturing father. After his father's bankruptcy, the family moved to Lyon.
After completing Ampère High School, Daudet taught in Alès briefly and featured his mischievous students in his first novel, The Little Thing (1868).
In 1857 he moved to Paris, where his older brother Ernest lived. He made a living by writing for newspapers such as Le Figaro and started writing in this way.
Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée, Léon, and Lucien Daudet.
Daudet, whose health problems started at an early age, was treated by the famous Dr. Charcot, and he collected materials that he would use for many years in his writing life in Corsica, Algeria, and Southern France, where he rested during this period. His relationship with the model, Marie Rieu, with whom he had an affair during this period, would be the subject of the novel Sapho (1884).
In 1867, he married Julia Allard, a writer like him. In 1869, Letters from My Değirmenim, in which his short stories were compiled, was published. He enlisted in the Franco-Prussian War but left the city during the Paris Commune. Daudet's novel Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), which he serialized in the newspaper, received great acclaim and continued this novel with two novels, Tartarine in the Alps (1886) and Port-Tarascon (1888).
The novel Young Fromont and the Great Risler (1874), which won an award from the Académie Française, brought fame and financial comfort to Daudet for a while. Following the "naturalistic novel" approach of his friends Émile Zola and Goncourt, he always made use of autobiographical elements in many of his works such as The Little Thing and Trente Ans de Paris (Thirty Years of Paris, 1888).
L'Immortel (Immortal, 1888), in which he criticizes the Académie Française, who did not accept him as a member, is considered Daudet's revenge on the academy. His last years were spent struggling with the severe effects of syphilis, which he caught in his youth. The disease, which eventually turned into a spinal cord weakness, caused the author to experience spasms and sudden pains.
After his death, his wife edited his book La Doulou (Pain). This book depicts Daudet's experiences with all his nakedness. On the evening of December 16, 1897, he suddenly fainted while at the table, and despite the efforts of the doctors, he could not be saved. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.