Daudet was far from faithful, and was one of a generation of French literary syphilitics."Alphonse Daudet's Illness", The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3745, 1932, p. 722. Having lost his virginity at the age of twelve, he then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage. Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his subsequently paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain he experienced from tabes dorsalis are collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He died in Paris on 16 December 1897, and was interred at that city's Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Daudet was far from faithful, and was one of a generation of French literary syphilitics."Alphonse Daudet's Illness", The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3745, 1932, p. 722. Having lost his virginity at the age of twelve, he then slept with his friends' mistresses throughout his marriage Daudet would undergo several painful treatments and operations for his subsequently paralysing disease. His journal entries relating to the pain he experienced from tabes dorsalis are collected in the volume In the Land of Pain, translated by Julian Barnes. He died in Paris on 16 December 1897, and was interred at that city's Père Lachaise Cemetery.