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Biography

Anatole (Thibault) France is Notable.

Anatole was a 1921 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers.

François-Anatole Thibault was born on April 16, 1844 in Paris, Seine, France. Son of Francois Noël Thibaut and Antoinette Gallas Thibault.^[1]

He also used the pseudonym, Jacques Anatole Thibault.

He married Marie Valérie Guérin de Sauville in 1877. They divorced in 1893 after having one child, a daughter Suzanne in 1881. ^[2]

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".

Anatole France was born in Paris. His father managed a bookstore that was frequented by many notable writers and specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution.

He wrote three collections of poetry, four memoirs, four plays, and a dozen literary and social criticisms.

"Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d'agir, il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire."

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." ^[3]

Variant: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

He died on October 12, 1924 in Tours.

He was laid to rest in Cimetière de Neuilly-sur-Seine Ancien Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. ^[4]

After his death in 1924, France was the object of written attacks, including particularly venomous assaults from the Nazi collaborator Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and the Surrealists, who published Un Cadavre largely as a response to the popular appeal of France, who they deemed vulgar and derivative. An admirer, the English writer George Orwell, defended him however and declared that he remained very readable, and that "it is unquestionable that he was attacked partly from political motive."

Sources

1. ↑ "France, Naissance et baptêmes, 1546-1896", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X1N4-7GW : 14 September 2019), Francois Anatole Thibaut, 1844.
2. ↑ "Actes de mariage, Paris, France, 1860-1918", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CYQ4-2VPZ : 10 April 2020), Anatole François Thibault, 1877.
3. ↑ Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12286/anatole-france : accessed 25 May 2022), memorial page for Anatole France (16 Apr 1844–12 Oct 1924), Find A Grave: Memorial #12286, citing Cimetière de Neuilly-sur-Seine Ancien, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France ; Maintained by Find a Grave.

See Also:

• Wikipedia: Anatole France
• Wikiquote: Anatole_France
• Wikidata: Item Q42443, en:Wikipedia
• List of Works by Anatole France
• "Anatole France, Nobel Prize Winner" by Herbert S. Gorman, The New York Times, 20 November 1921
• 1921 Nobel Prize Winners, Literature
• Anatole France – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Thu. 26 May 2022. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1921/france/facts/>
• Anatole France, 80, Documentary