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Letters From My Windmill

Name: Letters From My Windmill
Author: Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse DaudetOriginal title Les lettres de mon moulin (French)

Letters from My Windmill is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865.

“You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.”

Alphonse Daudet book Letters From My Windmill

Voyez-vous, mes enfants, quand le blé est mûr, il faut le couper; quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire.
Lettres de mon moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 112; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 86.