France, ANATOLE, poet, novelist, and miscellaneous author, was born at Paris 16th April 1844, and educated at the Collège Stanislas. His first work was a study of Alfred de Vigny (1868), his first volume of verse Poèmes dorés (1873); but he became famous in 1881 through Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, and has continued to produce stories, sketches, and satires—L'Étui de Naere (1892) being a well-known recent novel. In 1896 he was elected to the Academy. He has written much for the Temps.
France, ANATOLE
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