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Anatole France
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Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning.
— Book I: The Beginnings, Ch. I: Life Of Saint Mael
Anatole France
French writer (1844–1924)
- Fame78.7
- Momentum0.0
- France rank#64
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Updated 2026-06-21
The skeptical ironist who embodied the French literary ideal at the turn of the century — and became the fictional hero Bergotte in Proust's masterpiece.
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Born François-Anatole Thibault on 16 April 1844, he built a career as poet, journalist, and novelist, producing several best-sellers under the name Anatole France. His writing — ironic, skeptical, marked by nobility of style and what the Nobel committee called "a true Gallic temperament" — made him the archetypal French man of letters in his era. The Académie Française admitted him to its ranks, and in 1921 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for achievements defined by profound human sympathy and grace. Proust is widely believed to have modeled Bergotte, the narrator's literary idol in In Se…
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Anatole France
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A beautiful fig-tree raised itself in a hollow of the island and thrust forth its branches far and wide. The inhabitants of the island used to worship it.
— Book I: The Beginnings, Ch. II: The Apostolical Vocation Of Saint Mael
Anatole France
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
— Philopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8
Anatole France
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The gods conform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing. Pay attention to this.
— Ch. III, p. 135
Anatole France
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The great human asset is man himself. In order to rate the terrestrial globe, it is necessary to begin by rating men.
— Ch, IV, p. 175
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