Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

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Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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Romain Rolland was born on Monday, 29 January 1866 in Clamecy, Nièvre. He was best known as a playwright. Rolland's country of citizenship (nationality) was French. He died on Saturday, 30 December 1944 in Vézelay at the age of 78. His zodiac star sign was Aquarius.

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Vézelay
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Dramatist, Essayist, Art historian, Novelist
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Romain Rolland is known for his role in the film Dieu a choisi Paris (1969) as Self.

He is also known for his role in the TV series Jean-Christophe (1978) as (novel) (9 episodes, 1978).

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