French writer, known for his tales of his native Provence. Born in Nîmes and moved to Paris, where he published a volume of poetry entitled Les Amoureuse (1858). Around 1861 he began collaborating with the daily Le Figaro. Daudet is best known for his naturalistic and humorous evocation of Provencal life, contained in Letters from my mill (1869), which first appeared in Le Figaro in 1866, and his stories about Tartarin, a rogue fun in Provence. The latter include Tartarin of Tarascon (1872), Tartarin in the Alps (1885) and Port Tarascon (1890). He also wrote Monday's Tales (1873), a series of short stories about the Franco-Prussian War. Also notable is the play The Arles (1872), with music by French composer Georges Bizet, novels, Jack (1876), The Nabob (1877) and Sapho (1884), semi-autobiographical novel and the little thing (1868). This story of student life at times is compared with the novel by Charles Dickens, also semiautobiographical David Copperfield (1850). The two volumes of memoirs written by Daudet, Souvenirs of a man of letters and Trente Ans de Paris, published in 1888. As a fight two days ago and have spent the night with his knapsack on his shoulder in the pouring rain, the soldiers are exhausted. However, three mortal hours ago that they have here rotting, with the gun at the feet in the puddles in the roads, in the mud of the flooded fields. Killed by fatigue, last night, for uniforms soaked, squeeze each other for warmth and sustain. Some sleep standing, leaning on the neighbor's backpack, and lassitude, deprivation are best seen in their faces relaxed, abandoned in the dream. .. Rain, mud .. no fire .. no .. soup, low and dark sky .. the enemy .. that feels about In December 1908, at the corner of Santa Fe and Serrano, opened a "sweet shop, bar and home to lunch" as their owners, Boniforti and Sanchez, named "The Pedigree". By then the Plaza Itala was "one of the most picturesque, liveliest and most attractive of Buenos Aires, in the words of the chronicler of PBT was a walk, as he admits, after a long time in Palermo and was found to Suddenly, with the new establishment. So narrates: "got off the tram opposite the station, and suddenly, a bright and wide sidewalk full of tables and comfortable seating attracted our attention." They were the typical round marble tables, based cast iron, surrounded by sheet metal folding chairs, with seat holes in symmetric circles. Large lanterns that hung from the front wall located every two or three meters from each other, illuminating the path, and customers could enjoy thanks to this Day and night Palermo. There he met the girl and families to enjoy while looking at the tranways loaded passenger cars and the first-drawn cars, convertible, flywheel, chitin, Matthew, in which walking the beauties of the time. It was not easy to get a billiard table cloth on the sidewalk when the weather was propitious, the summer nights, early autumn evenings and late spring. The same room also served functions of "coffee" and a coffee billares.Era boasts billiards should have an institution and remains so despite the changes in tastes over time. The terrace "reserved for families" was installed packages with folding tables, round, sheet, white tablecloths covering set to the table a vase in the middle and an ashtray on the side with the propaganda of a product of the era. Pedigree also had a garden. Here is repeated the terrace tables and chairs on the sidewalk, but dissappeared the tablecloth. It was an internal garden walls enclosing the property. Several pines shaded the tables spread with ample space between them. In a wooden lattice, typical of the time, embraced the vines that were covered with flowers providing color and perfume. The staff was a parcel. Waiters in white shirts, black bow tie, black jacket and white apron from the waist to the floor nearly covered his shoes patent leather. Hanging from the left arm, the napkin. Fifty yards Santa Fe was advancing on the coffee "The Gates", the meeting place of the Guardians of tram station "The Gates" located where there is now a branch of Banco de la Nacion Argentina. All this in the wake of the gates had Sarmiento Avenue crossing installed sidewalks connecting the Zoo and the Rural Society. As was then, and Santa Fe Cannimg lived diagonally to the southeast, a palace once inhabited by a Patagonian bourgeois family, the Menendez, and making cross, at the northwest corner was installed Malevaje: trousers and hat bulb in a bar fife boastfully called Athens. The land on which he had built the palace was owned by Colonel Eduardo Holmberg who died in 1853 and became its fifth time famous "frontier formed on several blocks to Santa Fe Street between Canning and Alvarez, which extended from the bottom towards Las Heras for several blocks.." "It was one of the most beautiful and important villas of Buenos Aires not only for its trees and flowering plants, but by the richness in variety of fruit. "Over time that land on the famous soprano Leah Patti began construction of a palace in which it invested a fortune and failed to finish building . It was then that Mr. Menendez bought it and gave it to his wife. The gimp Santa Cruz and his brother John at the bandoneon, Carlos Hernani Machi on flute and the violin Palavechino Alcides put together a series of breaks and cracks in a short time did the wide blade of rivaling the Bar La Paloma de Almeyda and Santa Fe Concurrency maleva if he had, the fights were things every night and police laburar piece, though they say it was always late. The wearing of Maco Moran Joaquina hillside, a brunette interesting that, in addition, it is said, was clever. Maybe that's why he threw the Maco. So the story was written by that time and was forming Palermo, and mistonguería bacanaje mixture of laburantes and cafiolos , mansions and houses. Of course these were not the only cafes in Palermo, but we have highlighted the most important of the time, those who were shelter residents who were in the cafe a meeting place to discuss politics, football and racing, or for mixing in items of chess, dominoes or billiards.