Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . nd from 1838 exhibited in theSalon, though his full recognition onlycame after he was 50. He devoted him-self to close and sympathetic study fromnature, working much on the Seine in ahouseboat. In 1853 he gained a first-class medal with his Pool of 1857 he produced his Springtime;in 1861, The Banks of the Oise; in1872; Windmills at Dordrecht; and in 1877, Rising Moon. His Sluices inthe Valley of Optevos (1855) and hisVintage (1863) are in the Luxem-bourg Gallery.
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . nd from 1838 exhibited in theSalon, though his full recognition onlycame after he was 50. He devoted him-self to close and sympathetic study fromnature, working much on the Seine in ahouseboat. In 1853 he gained a first-class medal with his Pool of 1857 he produced his Springtime;in 1861, The Banks of the Oise; in1872; Windmills at Dordrecht; and in 1877, Rising Moon. His Sluices inthe Valley of Optevos (1855) and hisVintage (1863) are in the Luxem-bourg Gallery. He is also known as abook-illustrator and as a vigorous died in Paris, Feb. 19, 1878. DAUDET, ALPHONSE (do-da), aFrench novelist; born in Nimes, May 13,1840. He sought fortune in Paris in1857; two booklets of poems were fail-ures; two plays—The Last Idol(1862) and The White Daisy (1865) —had more success. His charming littlestories, The Little Thing (1868) ;Letters from My Mill (1869) ; Mon-day Tales (1873), established his repu-tation; and his next novel—FremontJr. and Risler Sr. (1874)—was trans-. ALPHONSE DAUDET lated into all the European less celebrated are: The Nabob(1878); Kings in Exile (1880);^Numa Roumestan (1882); Sappho(1884). He struck a humorous vein inthe Tartarin series: Prodigious Ad-ventures of Tartarin; Tartarin in theAlps; Port Tarascon. He wrote twovolumes of reminiscences. Thirty Yearsof Paris (1888), and Recollections of aMan of Letters (1889). He died inParis, Dec. 16, 1897. DAUDET, ERNEST, a French novel-ist; brother of Alphonse Daudet; bomin Nimes, May 31, 1837. His most not-able novels are: The Venus of Gordes;The Bloom of Sin; Martha. He isauthor of an autobiographical sketch,My Brother and Myself (1882); and DAUDET 273 DAVENPORT has written some historical sketches, asa History of the Royalist Conspiraciesin the South During the Revolution;History of the Emigration. The Trag-edies and Comedies of History (1912). DAUDE
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