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Léon Daudet (French:[dodɛ]; 16 November 1867 – 2 July 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an activemonarchist, and a member of theAcadémie Goncourt.
Daudet was born in Paris. His father was the novelistAlphonse Daudet, his mother wasJulia Daudet and his younger brother,Lucien Daudet, would also become an artist. He was educated at theLycée Louis le Grand, and afterwards studied medicine, a profession which he abandoned.[1] Léon Daudet marriedJeanne Hugo, the granddaughter ofVictor Hugo, in 1891 and thus entered into the higher social and intellectual circles of theFrench Third Republic. He divorced his wife in 1895 and became a vocal critic of the Republic, theDreyfusard camp, and of democracy in general.[2]
Together withCharles Maurras (who remained a lifelong friend), he co-founded (1907) and was an editor of the nationalist,integralist periodicalL'Action Française. Adeputy from 1919 to 1924, he failed to win election as asenator 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 MinisterLéon Blum, Daudet[3] joined other political leadersXavier Vallat,Darquier de Pellepoix, andPhilippe Henriot to welcome him in theVel' d'Hiv in July 1937.
When his sonPhilippe was discovered fatally shot in 1923, Daudet accused the republican authorities of complicity withanarchist activists in what he believed to be a murder, and lost a lawsuit fordefamation 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 fellowAction Française writerMarius 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 apardon in 1930. In 1934, during theStavisky Affair, he was to denounce Prime MinisterCamille Chautemps, calling him the "leader of a gang of robbers and assassins". He also showed particular detestation for the subsequent Prime MinisterLéon Blum, candidate of a coalition of socialists and other parties of the left.
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Guillou, Robert (1918).Leon Daudet, son Caractère, ses Romans, sa Politique. Paris: Société d'Éditions Levé.
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