Quote of the day
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Alphonse Daudet
Born: May 13, 1840
Died: December 16, 1897 (aged 57)
Bio: Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.
Known for:
- Letters from My Windmill (1869)
- Tartarin of Tarascon (1872)
- Le Petit Chose (1868)
- In the Land of Pain
- The Last Lesson