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DAUDET, LÉON. - Writer and politician, son of Alphonse, born in Paris on November 16, 1867, died in St-Rémy (Paris) on June 30, 1942.
DAUVERSIÈRE, JÉRÔME LE ROYER de la - His oldest portrait. Laval, Hôtel-Dieu. (da Sœur Moudoux, L'Hôtel-Dieu premier hôpital de Montréal 1812-1912, Montréal 1912, p. 2)A follower of E. Drumont, the initiator of antisemitism in France, and later of E. Vaugeois, a proponent of monarchical nationalism, he was editor-in-chief from the very beginning of the newspaper L'action française, which he later directed alongside Maurras. He served as a 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 of psychology and medicine, criticism, and politics. Among his novels, infected to varying degrees by sensualism, the following are on the Index: Le voyage de Shakespeare (decree of December 14, 1927) and Les bacchantes (decree of February 17, 1932).
BIBL.: Léon Jules, s. V. in Diction. pratique des connaissances religieuses, II, Paris 1925, col. 705-707; Various Authors, L. D. de l'Académie Goncourt, Paris 1926; E. Mas, L. D., son œuvre, ibidem 1928; J. Charpentier, L. D., in Mercure de France, 228 (1931), pp. 69-72; J. Sauvenier, L. D., un humaniste rabelaisien, Brussels 1933; P. Dress, L. D. vivant, Paris 1947.
Giovanna Fusco
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“DAUDET, LÉON.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 728. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/daudet-leon.
