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Léon Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 16 November 1867 – 2 July 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active monarchist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

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Léon Daudet
Born	Alphonse Marie Vincent Léon Daudet (1867-11-16)16 November 1867 Paris, France
Died	2 July 1942(1942-07-02) (aged 74) Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vichy France
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, journalist
Nationality	French
Spouse	Jeanne Hugo ​ ​ (m. 1891; div. 1895)​
Children	Charles Daudet
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Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelist Alphonse Daudet, his mother was Julia Daudet and his younger brother, Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist. He was educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand, and afterwards studied medicine, a profession which he abandoned.[1] Léon Daudet married Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter of Victor Hugo, in 1891 and thus entered into the higher social and intellectual circles of the French Third Republic. He divorced his wife in 1895 and became a vocal critic of the Republic, the Dreyfusard camp, and of democracy in general.[2]

Together with Charles Maurras (who remained a lifelong friend), he co-founded (1907) and was an editor of the nationalist, integralist periodical Action Française. A deputy from 1919 to 1924, he failed to win election as a senator in 1927 – despite having gained prominence as the voice of the monarchists. When Maurras was released from prison after serving a sentence for verbally attacking Prime Minister Léon Blum, Daudet[3] joined other political leaders Xavier Vallat, Darquier de Pellepoix, and Philippe Henriot to welcome him in the Vel' d'Hiv in July 1937.

Scandals and later life

When his son Philippe was discovered fatally shot in 1923, Daudet accused the republican authorities of complicity with anarchist activists in what he believed to be a murder, and lost a lawsuit for defamation brought against him by the driver of the taxi in which Philippe's body was found. That same year, Germaine Berton carried out an assassination against fellow Action Française writer Marius Plateau. Daudet was also a target of this assassination but was not present at the time of the shooting.[4]

Condemned to five months in prison, Daudet fled and was exiled in Belgium, receiving a pardon in 1930. In 1934, during the Stavisky Affair, he was to denounce Prime Minister Camille Chautemps, calling him the "leader of a gang of robbers and assassins". He also showed particular detestation for the subsequent Prime Minister Léon Blum, candidate of a coalition of socialists and other parties of the left.

A supporter of the Vichy administration headed by Marshal Pétain, Léon Daudet died in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

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• Alden, Douglas William (1940). Marcel Proust and his French Critics. Los Angeles, Calif.: Lymanhouse.
• Bertaut, Jules (1906). "Léon Daudet." In: Chroniqueurs et Polémistes. Paris: E. Sansot, pp. 255–274.
• Bertaut, Jules (1936). Paris 1870–1935. New York: D. Appleton Company.
• Buell, Raymond Leslie (1920). Contemporary French Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
• Chassaigne, J. Coudurier de (1917). "Léon Daudet: A Prophet in France," Land & Water, Vol. LXIX, No. 2887, pp. 9–10.
• Griggs, Arthur Kingsland (1925). Memoirs of Leon Daudet. New York: The Dial Press.
• Guillou, Robert (1918). Leon Daudet, son Caractère, ses Romans, sa Politique. Paris: Société d'Éditions Levé.
• Kershaw, Alister (1988). An Introduction to Léon Daudet, with Selections from His Writings. Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Press ISBN 0-930126-23-8.
• Leeds, Stanton B. (1940). "Daudet and Reaction." In: These Rule France. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, pp. 236–247.
• MacMahon, A. (1912). "Catholic Ideals in Modern French Fiction," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. 37, pp. 697–717.
• Muret, Charlotte (1933). French Royalist Doctrines since the Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Scheifley, W.H. (1921). "Léon Daudet, Defender of Church and State," The Catholic World, Vol. CXII, pp. 157–170.
• Weber, Eugen (1962). Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press ISBN 0-8047-0134-2.

External links

• Works by or about Léon Daudet at Internet Archive
• Works by Léon Daudet, at Hathi Trust
• Works by Léon Daudet, at Europeana
• Works by Léon Daudet, at Gallica
• Newspaper clippings about Léon Daudet in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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[ru] Доде, Леон

Альфо́нс Мари́ Венса́н Лео́н Доде́ (фр. Alphonse Marie Vincent Léon Daudet; 1867, Париж — 1942, Сен-Реми-де-Прованс) — сын французского писателя Альфонса Доде и его жены Жюли, литературный критик, публицист, полемист, романист и мемуарист.

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