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I must beg very serious persons not to read this. It is not written for them. It is not written for grave people who despise trifles and who always r… - Anatole France
" "I must beg very serious persons not to read this. It is not written for them. It is not written for grave people who despise trifles and who always require to be instructed. I only venture to offer this to those who like to be entertained, and whose minds are both young and gay. Only those who are amused by innocent pleasures will read this to the end.
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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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Pen Names:
Anatolis Fransas
Alternative Names:
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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François-Anatole Thibault
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Anatole Thibault
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