Anatole France

Anatole France

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Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and 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".

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Anatole France was born on Tuesday, 16 April 1844 in Paris, France. His full name at birth was François Anatole Thibault. He was best known as a writer. France's country of citizenship (nationality) was French. He died on Sunday, 12 October 1924 in Tours, France at the age of 80. He is buried at Cimetière de Neuilly-sur-Seine (Ancien), Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. His religion is listed as Atheist. He had salt and pepper hair (color). His zodiac star sign was Aries.

You can find people similar to Anatole France by visiting our lists Burials at Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery and Dreyfusards.

Full name at birth
François Anatole Thibault
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881); Thaïs (1890); L’Île des Pingouins (1908)
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16 April 1844
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Paris, France
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Date of death
12 October 1924
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80 (age at death)
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Tours, France
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Cimetière de Neuilly-sur-Seine (Ancien), Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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Poet, journalist, novelist, writer
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
  • Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.

Anatole France is known for his role in the film Golfstrim pod aysbergom (2012) as novel.

He is also known for his role in the TV series Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2009) as short story - 1 episode.

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