DAUDET, Léon. — Writer and political figure, son of Alphonse, born in Paris on 16 Nov. 1867, died at St-Rémy (Paris) on 30 June 1942.
DAUERTE LÉON — DAUVERSIÈRE JÉRÔME
(see Soeur Mondouz, L'Hotel-Dieu premier hôpital de Montréal 1632-1912, Montréal 1912, p. 28)
DAUVERSIÈRE, JÉRÔME LE ROVER de la — See the portrait in Soeur Mondouz, L'Hotel-Dieu premier hôpital de Montréal 1632-1912, Montréal 1912, p. 28.
DAUDET, Léon. — Follower of E. Drumont, pioneer in France of antisemitism, and later of E. Vaugeois, advocate of monarchist nationalism, he was the chief editor from the outset of the newspaper L'Action française, which he later directed with Maurras. He was deputy for Paris from 1919 to 1924. Imprisoned for defamation in 1927, D. managed to escape from prison and take refuge in Belgium, where in 1930 he was granted a pardon by the President of the Republic. From 1900 he was a member of the Académie Goncourt. He wrote works on psychology and medicine, criticism and politics. Of his novels, some more, some less, tainted with sensualism, the following are on the Index: Le voyage de Shakespeare (decreed 14 Dec. 1927) and Les bacchantes (decreed 17 Feb. 1932).