person
Alphonse Daudet
Daudet
also: Альфонс Додэ
The French novelist (1840-1897), cited purely as a pun -- one of several real bearers of the first name 'Alphonse' rounded up to mock the French as a nation of stock lovers and dandies ('alphonses').
Reading notes
- Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §10 Alphonse Daudet
The French novelist, cited purely for sharing the first name 'Alphonse' -- the joke plays on the French slang sense of "alphonse" as a kept man living off a woman.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 22 February 1888. Moscow. §4 compare you further with Daudet
Alphonse Daudet, French novelist, invoked as a second point of comparison for Shcheglov's lightly-touched "horse people" sketches.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 September 1888. Moscow. §11 Alphonse Daudet
The French novelist, cited here purely as an analogous case Suvorin brings up in his own defense -- a conversation in which Alphonse complained to Suvorin about his own less-prominent brother Ernest. Alphonse and Ernest Daudet are real, unrelated third parties with no other connection to the Chekhov family; Chekhov's point is that the anecdote only shows Alphonse's own immodesty, not that it excuses Suvorin.