47 letters found
- 128 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 27 August 1877.
- in translation:
I don’t know that book by Daudet you wrote about, but have you ever read ‘A life for a life’ by...
- 274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
- in note 6:
Alphonse Daudet, Les rois en exil – Roman parisien (1879) is a novel about the royal family of Illy...
- in translation:
Did I write to you before that I read Daudet’s Les rois en exil? I thought it rather beautiful.
- 292 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 10 December 1882.
- in note 1:
Alphonse Daudet’s Le Nabab – Moeurs parisiennes (1877) is a novel about the fall of Bernard Janso...
- in translation:
...ikewise today. I’ve been reading Le Nabab by Daudet these past few days, and find it masterly — a...
...re. There’s a lot of heart in those books by Daudet. For example, in Les rois en exil the character...
- 355 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 16 June 1883.
- in translation:
... reading a description of a factory by Zola or Daudet or Lemonnier. I’ve marked a passage in his le...
- 360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
- in note 17:
For Daudet’s Nabab, see letter 292, n. 1.
- in translation:
...taken to reading Zola and had read Le Nabab by Daudet as well. Do you know Germinie Lacerteux by Jule...
- 377 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 20 August 1883.
- in note 5:
... Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (1874) by Alphonse Daudet is a novel about the technical draughtsman...
- 432 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 March 1884.
- in note 10:
...airly freely from the end of chapter 7 of Alphonse Daudet’s recently published book L’Evangélis...
- in translation:
...one would eventually freeze. Read something by Daudet about pious women, ‘Those two faces looked at...
- 439 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
- in note 4:
Alphonse Daudet’s novel Numa Roumestan – Moeurs parisiennes (1881) is about the political figure ...
- 452 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 20 July 1884.
- in note 7:
Alphonse Daudet, Sapho – Moeurs parisiennes (1884) is a novel about a twenty-year-old student from ...
- in translation:
Have you read Sapho by Daudet? It’s very beautiful, and so vigorous, and so close to life that the ...
- 464 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 2 October 1884.
- in note 14:
In Alphonse Daudet, L’évangéliste – Roman parisien (1883) the simple crochet worker Mme Ebsen s...
- in translation:
...y Daudet about these female intrigues, which were different here but still of the same kind. Daudet
- 506 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 2 June 1885.
- in translation:
... Have you ever read ‘L’évangéliste’ by Daudet? If you have — then you’ll find better word...
- in note 24:
See for Daudet’s L’évangéliste, a novel about hypocrisy and deceit: letter 464, n. 14.
- 510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
- in note 11:
...cle he ‘read recently’ must have been Alphonse Daudet’s ‘L’histoire de mes livres. Les roi...
- in translation:
..., an article by him that I read recently about Les rois en exil) calls the hunt for the model.Daudet
- 550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
- in translation:
...y of the studies of women by the very great people in literature, Zola, Daudet, De Goncourt, Balzac.
- 557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.
- in note 11:
...sait dans quelques types généraux) (p. 816). Daudet is not mentioned in the article, but the compar...
- in translation:
...which I found very interesting, and how he and Daudet had in common a passion for doing everything fr...
- 560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
- in note 5:
Van Gogh may have learned that Daudet was often with Turgenev in his last days from the article that ...
- in translation:
...ticularly the one you mentioned, Turgenev, and Daudet — they don’t work without a goal or without...
...g Turgenev were like that, too — he was with Daudet a great deal then. Sensitive, subtle, intellige...
- 565 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Monday, 22 February 1886.
- in note 3:
See for Daudet’s article ‘Mémoires d’un homme de lettres. Tourguéneff’ on Turgenev: letter ...
- in translation:
...t now because I’ve read a piece about him by Daudet in which both the man himself as a character an...
- 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.
- in translation:
...ert, Guy de Maupassant, De Goncourt, Richepin, Daudet, Huysmans is magnificent and one can scarcely b...
- 578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
- in note 15:
...come familiar with the picture of it that Alphonse Daudet sketched in his satirical novel Aventures ...
- 583 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 9 March 1888.
- in note 9:
Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885), like Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), is a satirical n...
- 585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
- in note 10:
The central character in Daudet’s novels Tartarin de Tarascon (1872) and Tartarin sur les Alpes (18...
- 599 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
- in note 6:
...battle-cry that features several times in Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885). It firs...
- 609 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 12 May 1888.
- in note 1:
Van Gogh is referring to Alphonse Daudet’s Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, in which...
- 611 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 20 May 1888.
- in note 9:
Daudet, Le Nabab, chap. 14. See Daudet 1986-1994, vol. 2, p. 675.
- 613 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
- in note 3:
...en at this time as ‘Alpines’. See for Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes: letter 583, n....
- 622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
- in note 4:
See for this reference to Alphonse Daudet’s Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon: letter ...
- in translation:
...ce of the peace by profession (the Arab Jew in Daudet’s Tartarin calls this honourable official shu...
- 628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
- in note 19:
Taken from Alphonse Daudet, Le Nabab (chapter 22), where it is described as ‘a melancholy Lied’ (...
- in translation:
...ho it’s by, they’re the words of a song in Daudet’s Le Nabab, that’s where I took it from —...
- 630 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 23 June 1888.
- in note 12:
A reference to Alphonse Daudet’s novels Aventures prodigeuses de Tartarin de Tarascon (1872) and Ta...
- in translation:
I don’t find the southern gaiety here that Daudet talks about so much, on the contrary, an insipid ...
- 638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
- in note 20:
...been linked to the story ‘Les étoiles’ in Daudet’s Lettres de mon moulin and to Zola’s La jo...
- 659 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 12 August 1888.
- in note 6:
...olour illustration by Frédéric Montenard, in Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes (Calman Lévy, Paris...
- 667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
- in note 7:
See for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon (1872) andTartarin sur les Alpes (1885): letter 583, n. 9.
- in translation:
...tryside. Have you read Tartarin de Tarascon by Daudet? Be sure to, and Tartarin sur les Alpes, for th...
- 670 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
- in note 9:
... letter 599, n. 6, for the expression ‘fen de brut’ in Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon.
- 672 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 1 September 1888.
- in note 9:
...ay of Tartarin, the self-styled lion hunter in Daudet’s eponymous novels, who is a great fan of Aim...
- in note 8:
Alphonse Daudet L’immortel – Moeurs parisiennes, which had appeared in book form two months earli...
- in note 4:
...each step out of the ice’ from chapter 10 of Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes (see Daudet 1986-199...
- in note 10:
For Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes see letter 583, n. 9.
- in translation:
...any more. At the moment, I’m at last reading Daudet’s L’immortel, which I find very beautiful b...
- 673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
- in note 7:
See letter 583, n. 9, for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes.
- in note 6:
A reference to Alphonse Daudet, L’immortel (1888): ‘Fame... I have tasted it two or three times, ...
- in translation:
I’ve finished Daudet’s L’immortel — I rather like the remark by the sculptor Védrine, who sa...
- 677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
- in note 14:
See letter 583, n. 9, for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes.
- 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
- in note 27:
This proverb occurs in Daudet’s Numa Roumestan. The novel, which Van Gogh had read in 1884 (see let...
- in note 26:
See letter 673, n. 6, for this reference to Daudet’s L’immortel.
- in note 20:
The character of Tartarin in Daudet’s eponymous novels, Tartarin sur les Alpes and Tartarin de Tara...
- 703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
- in note 1:
See letter 583, n. 9, for Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon (1872) and Tartarin sur les Alp...
- 708 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 19 October 1888.
- in note 6:
See letter 583, n. 9, for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, and letter 2...
- 709 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 October 1888.
- in note 8:
See letter 583, n. 9, for Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon.
- 721 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 19 November 1888.
- in note 7:
...ery little, especially on painting. He admires Daudet, Daubigny, Ziem and the great Rousseau, all of ...
- 736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
- in translation:
I urge you in all seriousness to look at that passage in Daudet’s book again.
- in note 22:
...605). ‘Tartarin the lion-hunter’ refers to Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon; for the passage on th...
- in note 21:
For Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9. The friend of T...
- 739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
- in note 11:
For Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9. Cf. letter 736,...
- 744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
- in note 10:
A reference to Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes; see letter 583, n. 9.
- 779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
- in note 15:
For Daudet’s novels Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9.
- 801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
- in note 2:
For Daudet’s novels Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9.
- in translation:
...clination of the heart towards this south that Daudet did in Tartarin, and the fact that here and the...
- 810 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
- in note 13:
For Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9.
- 829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
- in note 10:
For Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon and Tartarin sur les Alpes, see letter 583, n. 9. These novels ar...
- 841 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 20 January 1890.
- in translation:
...or me, he looks as if he comes straight out of Daudet, but then much more immature, and naturally muc...
2 essay items found
- Correspondents / Artist friends
- in correspondents_3:
.... He compares him with Bompard, a character in Daudet’s Tartarin de Tarascon who lies to his friend...
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...ted works like Maupassant’s Bel-ami and Alphonse Daudet’s Tartarin novels to make his existence ...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1888:
... the antiquities museum (578).
#Has read Daudet’s Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Taras...
- in 1887:
...Germinie Lacerteux, La fille Elisa), Richepin, Daudet and Huysmans. Has just read Maupassant’s Mont...
- in 1882:
...#Reads Erckmann-Chatrian’s Les deux frères, Daudet’s Les rois en exil and Le Nabab, Hugo’s Qua...
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) French writer
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