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Anatole France (1844–1924)
France, Anatole (frä
s) [Jacques Anatole Thibault]. A French novelist and poet of great perfection and distinction of style; born at Paris, April 16, 1844; died in 1924. His first volume of ‘Poems’ was published in 1873, and his dramatic poem ‘Corinthian Revels’ in 1876. The humorous stories ‘Jocaste and the Lean Cat’ (1879) was received with indifference; but he had brilliant success with ‘The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard’ (1881); ‘The Yule Log’ (1881); and ‘The Wishes of Jean Servien’ (1882). His other works include: ‘Alfred de Vigny’ (1868); ‘Our Children: Scenes in Town and in the Fields’ (1886); ‘Thaïs’ (1890); ‘Queen Pédauque’s Cook-Shop’; ‘Opinions of the Abbé Jérôme Coignard’ (1893); ‘The Garden of Epicurus’; ‘Abeille’; ‘My Friend’s Book’; ‘Our Children’; ‘Balthazar’; ‘Literary Life’; ‘Mr. Bergeret in Paris’ (1901); ‘Penguin Island’ (1908); ‘The Revolt of the Angels’ (1914); ‘The Path of Glory’ (1915). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).