"L'Immortel" is a bitter attack on the Académie française, to which august body Daudet never belonged. Daudet also wrote for children, including "La Belle Nivernaise", the story of an old boat and her crew. In 1867 Daudet married Julia Allard, author of "Impressions de nature et d'art" published in 1879 (of which "L'Enfance d'une Parisienne", later published as a stand-alone in 1883, constitutes the first part, the third part being a compilation of her literary studies, formerly written for the "Journal Officiel" under the pseudonym "Karl Steen").