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Author Description French critic <b>Anatole France</b>, pen name of <b>Jacques Anatole François Thibault</b> wrote sophisticated, often satirical short stories and novels, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/346024.Penguin_Island" title="Penguin Island" rel="nofollow noopener">Penguin Island</a> </i> (1908), and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for literature. <br /><br />Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. From 1867, he as a journalist composed articles and notices. <br /><br />In 1869, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116112593.Le_Parnasse_Contemporain" title="Le Parnasse Contemporain" rel="nofollow noopener">Le Parnasse Contemporain</a> </i> published <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=La%20Part%20de%20Madeleine" title="La Part de Madeleine" rel="nofollow noopener">La Part de Madeleine</a> </i> of his poems. In 1875, he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation. He moved <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29967.Paul_Verlaine" title="Paul Verlaine" rel="nofollow noopener">Paul Verlaine</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5798517.St_phane_Mallarm_" title="Stéphane Mallarmé" rel="nofollow noopener">Stéphane Mallarmé</a> aside. <br /><br />Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, protagonist of famous <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1652455.Le_Crime_de_Sylvestre_Bonnard" title="Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard" rel="nofollow noopener">Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard</a> </i> (1881), embodied own personality of the author. The academy praised its elegant prose. <br /><br /> Anatole France in <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37217023.La_Rotisserie_de_la_Reine_Pedauque" title="La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque" rel="nofollow noopener">La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque</a> </i> (1893) ridiculed belief in the occult and in <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6463919.Les_Opinions_de_Jerome_Coignard" title="Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard" rel="nofollow noopener">Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard</a> </i> (1893) captured the atmosphere of the <i>fin de siècle</i>. <br /><br />People elected him to the Académie française in 1896. <br />People falsely convicted <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1401472.Alfred_Dreyfus" title="Alfred Dreyfus" rel="nofollow noopener">Alfred Dreyfus</a>, a Jewish army officer, of espionage. Anatole France took an important part in the affair, signed manifesto of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4750._mile_Zola" title="Émile Zola" rel="nofollow noopener">Émile Zola</a> to support Dreyfus, and authored <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1453043.Monsieur_Bergeret" title="Monsieur Bergeret" rel="nofollow noopener">Monsieur Bergeret</a> </i> in 1901. <br /><br />After the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptized the animals in error, France in later work depicts the transformation into human nature in 1908. <br /><br />People considered most profound <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13550372.La_Revolte_des_Anges" title="La Revolte des Anges" rel="nofollow noopener">La Revolte des Anges</a> </i> (1914). It tells of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu. Arcade falls in love, joins the revolutionary movement of angels, and towards the end recognizes the meaningless overthrow of God unless "in ourselves and in ourselves alone we attack and destroy Ialdabaoth." <br /><br />People awarded him "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" in 1921. <br /><br />In 1922, the Catholic Church put entire works of France on the <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26735537.Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum" rel="nofollow noopener">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a> </i> (<i>Index of Prohibited Books</i>). <br /><br />He died, and people buried his body in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.<br />

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