This writer from Provence, settled in Paris, owed part of his fame to a collection of short stories published in 1869, supposedly written in a windmill he had in fact never lived in. What is this collection?
The answer
Alphonse Daudet published ‘Letters from My Windmill’ in 1869, in fact written in Paris rather than in the Provençal windmill to which the title refers, a mill he visited but never lived in. He rests in Division 26.
This question belongs to the “Writers and Poets” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.