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Anatole France

1844 - 1924

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Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 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". France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anatole France is the 114th most popular writer (up from 117th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from France (up from 120th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Writer.

Anatole France is most famous for his novel "The Red and the Black."

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Among writers, Anatole France ranks 114 out of 7,302. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marquis de Sade, José Saramago, and Václav Havel. After him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, Theodor Herzl, Hafez, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ismail I.

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Among people born in 1844, Anatole France ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, and Sarah Bernhardt. After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, Ilya Repin, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Menelik II. Among people deceased in 1924, Anatole France ranks 4. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, and Giacomo Puccini. After him are Woodrow Wilson, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Fauré, Alfred Marshall, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anatole France ranks 116 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Pope John XXII (1244), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Marquis de Sade (1740), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), and Pope Innocent VI (1282). After him are François Mitterrand (1916), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), André Gide (1869), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philippe Pétain (1856), and Catherine of Valois (1401).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Anatole France ranks 25. Before him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), and Marquis de Sade (1740). After him are André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Paul Verlaine (1844).

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