His other prose works include novels about a wealthy Tunisian expatriate in Paris and an exiled King of Illyria, while one of his plays was the basis of Bizet's L'Arl?ienne Suites.  
In one of his stories, the Marshal prefers to stay inside a chateau playing the titular game, even though hundreds of his men are dying outside.  In addition to "A Game of Billiards," this man's first work was a book of poems, Women in Love, which was dedicated to the model Marie Rieu.  In one of his last novels, The Immortal, he made fun of the Acad?ie Fran?ise, which never made him a member.  His other prose works include novels about a wealthy Tunisian expatriate in Paris and an exiled King of Illyria, while one of his plays was the basis of Bizet's L'Arl?ienne Suites.  The New Don Quixote is the first novel in his trilogy about the "wonderful adventures" of a man who later would go to the South Seas and the Alps, Tartarin de Tarascon.  However, he is best-known for a collection which includes the story of Father Gaucher's elixir and Pope's mule.  FTP name this French author of The Nabob, Sapho, and Letters from My Windmill.
In one of his stories, the Marshal prefers to stay inside a chateau playing the titular game, even though hundreds of his men are dying outside.  
Alphonse Daudet