Anatole France

François-Anatole Thibault, known as Anatole France, was born in Paris, quai Malaquais, on 16 April 1844, the son of a bookseller. A pupil at the Collège Stanislas, he obtained in 1876 a post at the Senate library. Elected to the Académie française in 1896, he took Dreyfus's side, signed in 1898 the text in support of Zola and testified at Zola's trial, then moved closer to socialism. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921, he died on 12 October 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, near Tours.

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