Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant)

Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant)

Alphonse Daudet was born at Nmes on May 13, 1840. The Daudets were of lowly origin. Alphonses grandfather, a simple peasant, had in 1789 settled at Nmes as a weaver. His business prospered so much that he died leaving a small fortune; Vincent Daudet, his fourth son, and a young man of great ambition, was determined to rise out of the class in which he was born and acquire for himself and family a high social status. In 1830 he married, greatly against the wishes of her parents, Adeline Reynaud, whose father owned the largest silk manufactory in the town. His affairs were fairly flourishing when he was suddenly ruined by the Revolution of 1848. Unable to meet his liabilities, he sold his business and removed to Lyons with his wife and children. Hewas, however, anxious that his sons, of whom Alphonse was the third, should have the best education his scanty means would allow, and Alphonse and his elder brother Ernestthe mre Jacques of LePetit Chose and his lifelong companionwere first sent to the monastic school of St. Pierre, and then to the Lyons Lyce. Young Alphonse, who from his birth had been rather delicate, was not a model boy. Heloved to play truant, and it was only through his brother Ernest, who, to get him out of many a scrape, wrote notes to his teacher signed in his fathers name, that he escaped punishment. But he showed signs of great promise. Helearned his lessons in half the time that his school-fellows did, was always at the top of his class, and was gifted with a marvellous power of observation. Hecomposed several poemsamongst others LaVierge la Crche and Les Petits Enfants,also a novel, all of which were declared by his master to have been amazing productions for a boy of his age. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 27737
Author: Daudet, Alphonse
Release Date: Jan 7, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Tindall, S. (Samuel)