Anatole France
Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, critic, and novelist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. He was a member of the Académie française.
Early life
Anatole France was a son of a bookseller. He studied at the Collège Stanislas. He got married in 1877 but he get divorced in 1892. He was librarian for the French Senate in 1876 - 1890.
Literary career
Anatole France start his career as a parnassianism poet. Later he became an impressionist and he was an atheist. From 1867 he was a journalist. In 1881 he became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l'Institut. It's about an old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, Bonnard wants to make good, but he commits a crime. This novel won France a prize from the French Academy. In 1893 he captured the atmosphere of the fin de siècle in Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard.
France took a part in the Dreyfus Affair. He signed Émile Zola's manifesto supporting Dreyfus. Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer and he was charged with high treason. In 1901 France wrote Monsieur Bergeret about this affair. He stood out against colonialism.
In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1924 and he is buried near Paris in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery.
Anatole France Media
France's home, 5 villa Saïd, 1894–1924
Anatole France, Nobel laureate in Literature 1921
France pictured by Jean Baptiste Guth for Vanity Fair, 1909
Nos Enfants, illustrations by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1900)
Bibliography
Poetry
Prose
- Jocaste et Le Chat maigre (1879)
- Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l’Institut (1881)
- Les Désirs de Jean Servien (1882)
- Abeille, conte (1883)
- Balthasar (1889)
- Thaïs (1890)
- L’Étui de nacre (1892)
- La Rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque (1892)
- Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard (1893)
- Le Lys rouge (1894)
- Le Jardin d’Épicure (1895)
- Le Puits de Sainte Claire (1895)
- L’Histoire contemporaine
- Clio (1900)
- Le Procurateur de Judée (1902)
- Histoires comiques (1903)
- Sur la pierre blanche (1905)
- L'Affaire Crainquebille (1901)
- L’Île des Pingouins (1908)
- Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche (1908)
- Les Sept Femmes de Barbe bleue et autres contes merveilleux (1909)
- Les dieux ont soif (1912)
- La Révolte des anges (1914)
Memoirs
Plays
- Au petit bonheur, (1898)
- Crainquebille, (1903)
- La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette, (1908)
- Le Mannequin d'osier, (1928)
Historical biography
- Vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1908)
Literary criticism
Social criticism
Other websites
- Anatole France Biography at LitWeb
- Works by Anatole France at Internet Archive
- Anatole France, Nobel Prize Winner by Herbert S. Gorman, The New York Times, 20 November 1921