DAUDET'S MILLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 9

DAUDET'S MILLER.

DEATH AT 87. j . i AMUSED HTM IN BOYHOOD. PARIS. Jules Ribet. the owner of the mill where Alplionse Daudet six years agoj wrote his charming '"Lettres de Moil Moulin," has just died at Avignon, aged 87 years. The wings of the windmill at Fonvieille were stopped in 1915. after they had turned for more than a century. The old man loved to tell his souvenirs of "Monsieur Daudet" to the thousands of tourists come to see the famous room where the French writer worked. Old Monsieur Ribet used to tell how Alplionse Daudet would ask him as a child to tell him the names of the different winds that sent the arms of the windmill whirling up against the blue sky and the billowing clouds. The wind that blew in from the sea wan known as the "Fou du Jour," the 1 mad wind of the day, another was the "Levant." and others the "(Jrand Levant." '"Mango-Bone." the worst, and the "\ ent des Dames." the most innocent of all. i Classified a* a national monument • the mill lias already been honoured wit} : reproduction on a recent issue of postag< stamps,. Its winps turn no more, but > the letters written there by Alphootic t Daudet will continue to carry the i sweetness of Provence far and wide, &nc delight and clmrm for iininj~>M