The Novels and Romances of Alphonse Daudet

The Novels and Romances of Alphonse Daudet Synopsis

Excerpt from The Novels and Romances of Alphonse Daudet: Monday Tales; Letters From My Mill; Letters to an Absent One

The Frenchman, whether he writes merely for the Parisian, for France, or for a still larger repub lic, is m rapport with his public, and assumes it is interested in himself. Hence the spontaneity and charm of what he has to say, often one of manner, rather than of matter. Is be his own biographer? Then his artistic sense will save him from sins against good taste. He suppresses here, adds a touch there, is nowhere too literal. His the power to embellish, ornament facts, interweave fancies, interpolate just that element of the picturesque.

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