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Synopsis
CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY
Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist and playwright. His father was a silk manufacturer who suffered reverses and lost his property. Daudet took a post as a schoolteacher at Ales, Gard, but found it intolerable, and moved to Paris to live with his brother, Ernest, who was working as a journalist. Daudet wrote poetry and several plays, and secured employment as a secretary to Morny, a Minister of Napoleon III.
Sidonie Chèbe is to marry Risler, an older man. Risler is an employee of Fromont, a manufacturer of wallpaper, and in addition to being engaged to Sidonie, he has been elevated to partner, and the firm will be known as Fromont and Risler. But Sidonie has long been envious of the wealth of the Fromonts, and has been having an affair with Georges Fromont, nephew of the founder and heir to the business, though Georges is married to Claire.
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Synopsis
CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist and playwright. His father was a silk manufacturer who suffered reverses and lost his property. Daudet took a post as a schoolteacher at Ales, Gard, but found it intolerable, and moved to Paris to live with his brother, Ernest, who was working as a journalist. Daudet wrote poetry and several plays, and secured employment as a secretary to Morny, a Minister of Napoleon III. Fromont and Risler is a novel that recalls Zola. Sidonie Chebe is to marry Risler, an older man. Risler is an employee of Fromont, a manufacturer of wallpaper, and in addition to being engaged to Sidonie, he has been elevated to partner, and the firm will be known as Fromont and Risler. But Sidonie has long been envious of the wealth of the Fromonts, and has been having an affair with Georges Fromont, nephew of the founder and heir to the business, though Georges is married to Claire. This romantic triangle will lead to tragedy and ruin.
About the Author
Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. In 1857 he abandoned teaching and took refuge with his brother Ernest Daudet, only some three years his senior, who was trying, "and thereto soberly," to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing and his poems were collected into a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays and began to be recognized in literary communities as possessing distinction and promise. Morny, Napoleon III's all-powerful minister, appointed him to be one of his secretaries - a post which he held till Morny's death in 1865.
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