Alphonse Daudet’s novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the letters which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting.
Throughout his working life in Paris, Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence. These tales of that region are characterised by a tenderness and delicacy, a wistfulness and wry humour, which give moving substance to his claim that to invent, for him, was to remember.
The Art of Hiding Art
Blanquette is as pretty as a picture, prettier than any of Monsieur Seguin’s previous goats. Her eyes are as soft as a doe’s and her beard resembles that of an army corporal. Her hooves are black...
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