Alphonse Daudet |
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He first came to our village
during the summer 1860. This young journalist from Paris (born
in Nîmes), came on Frédéric Mistral's invitation
to seek the South special atmosphere.
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Warmly welcomed in Maillane by Mistral, he then came to the Montauban castle in Fontvieille, where his cousin Louis Daudet and his wife Octavie (born Ambroy) hosted him.
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He met there different personalities and inhabitants of the village, who later became the characters of his tales. |
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L'Arlésienne |
Le Petit Chose |
Tartarin de Tarascon |
He kept on coming to Fontvieille during thirty years.
He last came , in spite of a failing health,
at the end of 1891, to stand at his very old friend Timoléon
Ambroy's bedside. |
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