Marthe Daudet
Marthe Daudet (9 May 1878 – 26 April 1960) was a French journalist and culinary writer. She is better known under the pseudonym Pampille.
Biography
She was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Léon Allard and Anna Daudet. In 1903, she married her cousin, noted writer and politician Léon Daudet. The coulple had three children, Philippe (1909–1923), François (1915–1970) and Claire (1918–1969).[1]
Marthe Daudet wrote regular columns for the daily L'Action française promoting the excellence of French regional cuisine. Her 1913 cookbook Les Bons Plats de France became a classic in the genre. She traveled throughout France, carefully recording regional dishes from Flanders to Gascony and celebrating especially "the best of all cuisines" in Provence.
Proust praised her as a "poet"[2], and in The Guermantes Way, he referenced the "delicious books of Pampille."[3] In French Country Cooking (1951), Elizabeth David acknowledged her debt to Marthe Daudet.
Marthe Daudet died in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Works
- Les Bons Plats de France (1913)[4]
- Contes des Deux Mères (1914)
- Comment Élever nos Filles (1922)
- La Vie et la Mort de Philippe (1926)
- Comment Devenir Bonne Maitresse de Maison (1951)
Notes
- ↑ Léon Daudet also had a son, Charles (1892–1960), from his first marriage to Jeanne Hugo.
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- ↑ Translated and adapted by Shirley King, Pampille's Table: Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside (New York: Faber and Faber, 1996; Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
References
- Clébert, Jean-Paul (1988). Les Daudet. Une famille bien française. Paris: Presses de la Renaissance.
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- Giocanti, Stéphane (2012). C'était les Daudet. Paris: Flammarion.
External links
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