Lucien Daudet
{{Short description|French writer (1878–1946)}}
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Lucien Daudet (11 June 1878{{cite book |first=S.B. |last=Kennedy |title=Paul Henry |year=2003 |publisher=Yale University Press |page=21 |isbn=978-0-300-09945-4}} – 16 November 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. He was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his romantic ties{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/white-proust.html|title=Marcel Proust }} to fellow novelist Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time). Daudet was also friends with Jean Cocteau.
Biography
File:Marcel Proust et Lucien Daudet.jpg (seated), Robert de Flers (left), and Lucien Daudet (right), ca. 1894]]
The Daudet family was composed of the father, Alphonse, the mother Julia (née Allard), Léon, the older brother, Edmée, and Lucien. Every member of the family wrote books: father, mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law (Marthe Allard under the pseudonym of “Pampille”) and uncle (Ernest Daudet). Lucien himself published about fifteen books.
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Cultivated, “very beautiful, very elegant, a thin and frail young man, with a tender and a somewhat effeminate face”, according to Jean-Yves Tadié, Daudet lived a fashionable life which made him meet Marcel Proust. In 1897, Jean Lorrain publicly questioned the nature of Proust's relationship with Lucien Daudet. Proust challenged Lorrain to a duel over the implication that Proust and Daudet were lovers. Both duelists survived.{{cite web|website=Dandyism|title=Dueling Dandies: How Men Of Style Displayed a Blasé Demeanor In the Face of Death|author=Hall, Sean Charles| date=12 February 2012|url=http://www.dandyism.net/2012/02/12/dueling-dandies/}}
Lucien Daudet was also a painter. After having taken lessons at the Académie Julian, he was a pupil of Whistler and had an exposition together with Bernheim-Jeune in 1906. His tableaux are not known anymore except by literary allusions to them (correspondence of Proust; catalogue by Anna de Noailles).(fr)[http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=4243 appl Lachaise, Lucien Daudet]
All his life, Daudet was overshadowed by his father in literature ("I am the son of a man whose celebrity and talent count for several generations, I remain under his shade"), and by Whistler in painting ("He gave me a certain taste in painting, but also very great contempt for that which is not of first rank... and I apply this contempt to what I make.")
Towards the end of his life, in 1943, he married Marie-Thérèse, the younger sister of Pierre Benoit.
Works
- Le Chemin mort, 1908
- La Fourmilière, 1909
- Le Prince des cravates, 1910
- L’Impératrice Eugénie, Fayard, 1911
- Calendrier, Ed. De La Sirène, 1922
- L’Inconnue, Flammarion, 1923
- Autour de 60 lettres de Marcel Proust, 1928
- Dans l’ombre de l’impératrice Eugénie, Gallimard, 1935
- Vie d’Alphonse Daudet, 1941
Sources
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External links
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- [https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/white-proust.html Excerpt from the first chapter of Proust by Edmund White]
- [http://www.yorktaylors.free-online.co.uk/cravates.htm 1910 review of Le Prince des cravates]
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