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cences of his own early struggles. This pathetic 

 quality is still further developed in Jack (1873), 

 the story of an illegitimate child, part of the in- 

 terest of which turns on the half-malicious sketches 

 of certain literary Bohemians ; and in Fromont 

 Jeune et Risler Aine (1874), where the devotion of 

 a man of business to his firm, his wife, and his 

 brother, meets in all three cases with an equally 

 evil return. These have been followed by Le 

 Nabab (1877), a transparent caricature of Moray 

 and other well-known personages under the empire ; 

 Les Rois en Exil (1879), the chief parts in which 

 are supposed to have been played also by actual 

 persons; Nnma Roumestan (1882), the hero of 

 which was supposed to have some resemblance to 

 Gambetta, and which at anyrate is as remarkable 

 in the serious way as Tartarin in the comic amongst 

 satires on the meridional ' type ; L 'Evangelists 

 ( 1883), in which the then new craze of the Salvation 

 Army was introduced ; Sapho (1884), a book some- 

 what out of M. Baudot's usual line, in which the 

 mutual infatuation of a young man and a courtesan 

 and artist's model is drawn with remarkable if not 

 very wholesome power; and Ulmmortel (1888), in 

 which all the author's powers of ridicule, and all 

 his practised skill in attacking individuals under a 

 thin disguise, are eniployed to throw discredit on 

 the French Academy. The vigour, and within cer- 

 tain limits, the versatility, of this series of novels is 

 not ' denied by any one ; but in addition to the 

 personality already noticed, there has been charged 

 against the earlier ones at least a following of 

 Dickens, which can hardly be accidental, though 

 it has been asserted to be so. 



M. Daudet married early a lady of talent, who 

 rendered him much assistance in his literary work, 

 and he formed for some time part of a coterie of 

 remarkable literary characters, which included the 

 Russian novelist Turgenief, Gustave Flaubert, the 

 brothers Goncourt, and M. Zola. He published 

 autobiographic papers, collected as Trente Ans de 

 Paris ( 1887 ), and Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres 

 (1889). Long a sufferer from locomotor ataxy, he 

 died 16th December 1897. See R. H. Sherard's 

 Daudet ( 1894 ) and the Memoir by his son, Leon 

 ( Eng. trans. 1898), who is also a novelist. 



Daildnagar, a mean-looking town in the Gaya 

 district of Bengal, on the Son, 90 miles SW. of Patna. 

 It possesses, however, a considerable river trade, and 

 manufactures coarse fabrics both of wool and of 

 cotton. Pop. 9870. 



Daillatabad ('fortunate city'), a town and 

 fort in the Deccan, within the Nizam's dominions, 

 28 miles NW. of Hyderabad. The fortress consists 

 of a conical rock, 600 feet high, with a wide ditch 

 and an outer wall nearly 3 miles in circumference. 

 The place surrendered to the Mohammedans in 

 1294, and Shah Muhammad Tughlak (1324-51) 

 thrice attempted to remove the seat of government 

 hither from Delhi. The fortress has not been 

 garrisoned now for many years, and the town has 

 greatly decayed. Pop. 1243. 



D'AuInoy, MARIE CATHERINE JUMELLE DE 

 BERNEVILLE, COUNTESS, was born about 1650, and 

 died in 1705. She wrote many tedious and long- 

 winded romances long consigned to safe oblivion. 

 Of these may here only be mentioned Hippolyte, 

 Comte de Douglas (1690). Equally worthless are 

 her historical memoirs. But her fame rests securely 

 on her Contes des Fees, which are written in a 

 simple, bright, and charming style, not altogether 

 unworthy of the inimitable master, Perrault. The 

 White Cat, the Yellow DAvarf, Finette Cendron, 

 and Le Mouton have for two centuries been 

 naturalised in the nurseries of Europe, and are 

 still familiar figures in pantomime. 



B'Aumale. See AUMALE, ( Due D' ). 



Daumer, GEORG FRIEDRICH, an able but 

 eccentric German writer, was born in 1800 at Nurem- 

 berg, where for a time he was a professor in the 

 gymnasium, and where Kaspar Hauser (q.v.) was 

 committed to his care. Abandoning the pietism of 

 his student days, he passed through Schelhng's phil- 

 osophy to a position of bitter antagonism to Chris- 

 tianity, which he wished swept from the face of 

 the earth ; but in 1859 he joined the Ultramontane 

 party, and became one of its foremost champions. 

 His many philosophical writings reflect his varying 

 positions ; so late as 1847 he endeavoured to prove 

 that among the ancient Jews and the Christians 

 of the first century human sacrifice obtained ; from 

 1859 he expounded and defended the faith. His 

 poetical works, especially Mahomet (1848) and the 

 Liederbliiten des Hafis, two graceful imitations of 

 Persian poetry, have gained a high reputation. 

 Daumer died at Wiirzburg, 14th December 1875. 



Daillllicr, HENRI, a celebrated French carica- 

 turist, was bora at Marseilles in 1808. Fashion, 

 tittle-tattle, scandal, politics, blemishes of figure, 

 and oddities of character in turn inspired his 

 inexhaustible genius for mockery. Few among his 

 illustrious contemporaries escaped his pencil, and 

 his caricatures had always some strikingly truthful 

 feature about them. He made his debut in the 

 Charivari, in a series of sketches from Robert 

 Macaire ; and the revolution of 1848 suggested two 

 of his most remarkable series Idylles Parlemen- 

 taires and Les Representants Representes. In old 

 age Daumier became blind, and was befriended by 

 Corot. He died at Valmondois, 10th Feb. 1879. 

 See monograph by A. Alexandre (Paris, 1888). 



Dauii. LEOPOLD JOSEPH, GRAF VON, com? 

 mander-in-chief of the imperial troops during the 

 Seven Years' War, was the son of Count Wierich 

 Philipp von Daun, a distinguished officer in the 

 Austrian service, and-^was born at Vienna, 24th 

 September 1705. Entering his father's regiment, 

 he acquired a reputation during the Turkish cam- 

 paigns ( 1737-39). The war of the Austrian Succes- 

 sion also afforded him many opportunities of dis- 

 playing that, combination of valour and prudence 

 for which he was famous. After the peace with 

 Prussia in 1745, Daun fought against the French in 

 the Netherlands (1746-48), and in 1754 received 

 the dignity of field-marshal. Before this, he had, 

 in spite of many obstacles, introduced into the 

 imperial army a new military system, and reorgan- 

 ised the Military Academy at Vienna. At the com- 

 mencement of the Seven Years' War he commanded 

 the army of Moravia m 1757, and neutralised the 

 defeat of the Austrians under General Browne 

 near Prague, by driving Frederick the Great, who 

 had beleaguered that city, as far as Kolin, and forc- 

 ing him, after a hard-fought battle, to evacuate 

 Bohemia. On the 14th of October 1758 he gained 

 another victory over Frederick at Hochkirch, and 

 came near to annihilating the Prussian army. In 

 1759, at Maxen, he compelled Fink, the Prussian 

 general, with 11,000 men, to surrender. After 

 this, however, he gained no important successes ; 

 Frederick began to understand the tactics of ' the 

 Austrian Fabius Cunctator,' and to conduct uis 

 campaigns accordingly. Daun died 5th February 

 1766. 



Dauphin (Lat. Delphinus], formerly the title 

 of the eldest son of the French king, was origin- 

 ally that of the sovereign lords of the province of 

 Dauphine, who bore a dolphin as their crest. The 

 last of these, the childless Humbert III., in 1343 

 bequeathed his possessions to Charles of Valois, 

 grandson of Philippe VI. of France, on condi- 

 tion that the eldest son of the king of France 

 should bear the title of Dauphin of Vienne, and 

 govern the province. As late as the time of Louis 



