Anatole France was born in Paris, Kingdom of France on 16 April 1844. He was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française
, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic
temperament”.He died on 12 October 1924, at the age of 80, and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery
near Paris.
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| Anatole France (1844-1924)
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| REVOLT OF THE ANGELS (1914)
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| L’ILE DES PINGOUINS (1908)
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| LE LIVRE DE MON AMI (1885) |
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| THE GODS WANT BLOOD (1912) |
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| LYS ROUGE (1894) |
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| THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD (1881) |
