De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable. - Anatole France

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De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.

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About Anatole France

Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. A member of the Académie française, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He is widely believed to be the model for the narrator's literary idol "Bergotte" in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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Alternative Names: Jacques François-Anatole Thibault François-Anatole Thibault Anatole Thibault
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