Anatole France

French writer (1844-1924) · France · Writers · Died at 80

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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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A life in dates

1950Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-CenturyAward1924Died12 October 19241921Nobel Prize in LiteratureAwardPresident of the French PEN ClubOffice1921-19241908“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.”In their wordsBook I: The Beginnings, Ch. I: Life Of Saint MaelRead the whole statement

“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.”In their wordsBook I: The Beginnings, Ch. II: The Apostolical Vocation Of Saint MaelRead the whole statement

1905“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.”In their wordsPhilopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8Read the whole statement

“The gods conform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing. Pay attention to this.”In their wordsCh. III, p. 135Read the whole statement

“You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.”In their wordsCh. VI, p. 237Read the whole statement

“It is not likely," remarked Joséphin Leclerc, "that the future will be such as you have seen it. I do not wish for the coming of socialism, but I dread it not.”In their wordsCh. VI, p. 238Read the whole statement

1896Member of the Académie françaiseOffice1896-19241895Officer of the Legion of HonourAward1889Vitet PrizeAward1884Knight of the Legion of HonourAward1882Montyon PrizeAward1844Born16 April 1844

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Anatole France, Foto von Robert Sennecke

A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies (1916) (14766229852)

Anatole France - Caricature d'Ernest La Jeunesse

Anatole France - Clemenceau - L'Humanité - 1906

Anatole France - Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, 1908, tome 1 (page 7 crop)

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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.
1908, Book I: The Beginnings, Ch. I: Life Of Saint Mael, Own words
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.
1908, Book I: The Beginnings, Ch. II: The Apostolical Vocation Of Saint Mael, Own words
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.
1905, Philopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8, Own words

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Awards

Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century1950

Nobel Prize in Literature1921

Officer of the Legion of Honour1895

Vitet Prize1889

Knight of the Legion of Honour1884

Montyon Prize1882

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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 Search of Lost Time, on France. He died 12 October 1924.

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