page_title: Alphonse Daudet
section_title: Political and social views, controversy and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Alphonse Daudet / Political and social views, controversy and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Alphonse Daudet. Caption read "He wrote 'Sapho'".
context_page_description: Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.
context_section_description: Daudet was a monarchist and a fervent opponent of the French Republic. Daudet was also anti-Jewish, though less famously so than his son Léon. The main character of Le Nabab was inspired by a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy for Nîmes.  Daudet campaigned against him and lost. Daudet counted many literary figures amongst his friends, including Edouard Drumont, who founded the Antisemitic League of France and founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole. Daudet also exchanged anti-Semitic correspondence with Richard Wagner.
  It has been argued that Daudet deliberately exaggerated his links to Provence to further his literary career and social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to his future wife about his "Provençal" roots.
  Numerous colleges and schools in contemporary France bear his name and his books are still widely read and several are still in print.
caption: Daudet by Guth, 1893
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