Word: tartarin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paunchy, hook-nosed Léon Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long...
...mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism could lie down together without fighting over the blankets -and without, as Cash repeatedly points out, a trace of conscious hypocrisy. "There was much of Tartarin in this Southerner, but nothing of Tartufe...
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris...