In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet Edited and translated by Julian Barnes (Alfred A. Knopf, 87 pp, $13) The language requirement in American high schools has always been something of a curricular ...

In 1883 Turgenev had an operation in Paris for the removal of a neuroma in the lower abdomen. The doctors gave him ether rather than chloroform, and so he was conscious throughout the intervention.

Are words actually any use to describe what pain really feels like?" French novelist Alphonse Daudet once wrote, while in a long, agonizing physical decline. "Words only come when everything is over, ...

THE French have about many matters a way of feeling that is not ours, and M. Ernest Daudet’s little volume 1 illustrates some of these differences. He is the brother of the brilliant author of the ...

A popular writer in his time and admired by Charles Dickens and Henry James, French novelist, playwright and journalist Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) has been largely forgotten today. According to ...

Though Daudet wrote most of the pieces on the train from Paris, his quiet Provençal tales provide a vivid evocation of place I don't do summer holidays. I was born poor, so holidays were rare ...

French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), who suffered from tertiary syphilis and wrote of his pain in "La Doulou." Colorized engraving, c. 1892. Source: Bridgeman Images, used with permission ...

The Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, was reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras ...