Editing Alphonse Daudet (section)

==Political and social views, controversy and legacy==
[[Image:Alphonse Daudet.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Alphonse Daudet]]
[[File:Alphonse Daudet 3.jpg|thumb|Alphonse Daudet, circa 1860 ([[The J. Paul Getty Museum]])]]

Daudet was a monarchist and a fervent opponent of the French Republic. He was an antisemite, {{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} though less famously so than his son [[Léon Daudet|Léon]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernanos, Georges|title=La grande peur des bien-pensants|publisher=Le livre de poche|date=1998|isbn=978-2-253-93302-1}}</ref> The main character of ''Le Nabab'' was inspired by a Jewish politician who was elected as a deputy for Nîmes.<ref>Mosse, Claude (2009). "Alphonse Daudet, Ecrivain Provencal?", ''Actualite de l'Histoire'', No. 103, p. 71.</ref>  Daudet campaigned against him and lost.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} Daudet counted many antisemitic literary figures amongst his friends, including [[Edouard Drumont]], who founded the [[Antisemitic League of France]] and founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper ''La Libre Parole''.<ref name="Gérard Gengembre 1998, p266">Gérard Gengembre, professeur de littérature française à l'Université de Caen. In DAUDET, Alphonse. ''Lettres de mon moulin'', Paris, Pocket, 1998, {{p.|266}}. (Pocket classiques ; 6038). {{ISBN|2-266-08323-6}}</ref> It has been argued that Daudet deliberately exaggerated his links to Provence to further his literary career and social success (following Frederic Mistral's success), including lying to his future wife about his "Provençal" roots.<ref>Mosse (2009), pp. 68–70.</ref>

Numerous colleges and schools in contemporary France bear his name and his books are widely read and several are in print.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}