Word: daudet
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...Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...
...Paris, Guy found rich compensations for his drudgery. He was befriended by the great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...
...rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
After 14 days the Camelots faked a telephone call ordering Daudet's release, and the warden bade him a friendly, regretful farewell. Daudet fled to Belgium, where he lived in what he described as "formidable hilarity" for two and a half years. Finally President Gaston Doumergue, overlooking the continuing daily Daudet tirades in L'Action, pardoned...
...recent years he opposed sanctions for Italy, supported Franco, talked of a corporative state for France under the Pretender, the Comte de Paris. But presently more serious fascists seized the French stage, and the national vaudeville was over. Last November, tired and ailing, Daudet resigned from L'Action, retired to Saint Remy-de-Provence to contemplate the ruins of the fair and foolish democracy which had long enjoyed...