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In 1851 the French Academy awarded him a prize for his work "Un Philosophe sous les Toits." In 1853 he was invited by Vinet to visit Switzerland in order to deliver a series of popular lectures on literature, which were received with great favor. Soon after his return to Paris he died, July 5, 1854.
The wreck of the Empire brought to his mind a vision of the dethroned monarchs whom he had seen spending their exile in Paris: the Duke of Brunswick, the blind King of Hanover and the devoted Princess Frederica, Queen Isabella of Spain, and others. "This is the work which cost me most effort," Daudet says, and the reason is not far to seek.
56 12 Barbarin: when this work first appeared in serial form Tartarin was called "Barbarin." The name was changed when Daudet discovered that a family named Barbarin was living at Tarascon. See Introduction. The word tartarin means the sacred or Arabian baboon. 56 13 souffla: 'prompted. Souffler, 'to blow, 'to breathe, in theatrical parlance means 'to prompt. Le souffleur is 'the prompter.
However right Spain may be in the end, the origin of the quarrel will be tainted.... In recomending to you really and strenuous endeavours the attempt to bring the Spanish government to a more tractable state with respect to this unfortunate dispute, I must leave to you the manner of going to work.
We have, therefore, only to explain the object and claims of the present work.
In the close grew a thicket of olive, a long-leaved tree full-grown, that flourished and grew goodly as big as a pillar about, So round it I built my bride-room, till I did the work right out with ashlar stone close-fitting; and I roofed it overhead, and thereto joined doors I made me, well fitting in their stead.
"My father said to me again and again," Léon Daudet tells us, "I should like, after I have accomplished my task, to set myself up as a merchant of happiness. My reward would be in my success!" This longing, so entirely characteristic of the man, is manifest everywhere in his earlier work, only rarely in the great novels; unfortunately the great novels were his "task."
Voici, dans les cris du XVIIe siècle, le quatrain qui concerne les tonneliers ambulants: Tinettes, tinettes, tinettes! A beaucoup de gens sont propices, Et si font beaucoup de services, Regardez: elles sont bien nettes. À Londres, au siècle dernier, le cri était: Any work for the Cooper! Avez-vous de l'ouvrage pour le tonnelier?
He explains that the idea of the work occured to him one October evening when, standing in the Place du Carrousel, he was contemplating the ruins of the Tuileries.
The purely romantic element of the work is found in the story of Paul de Géry and the Joyeuse family, a secondary plot having no vital connection with the main story. In "Les Rois en exil" Daudet explores a new vein in contemporary society.
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