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Anatole France |
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16th April 1844 |
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Paris, France |
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Anatole France (April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. He was born in Paris, France, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was buried in the Ancient Cemetery of Neuilly, Hauts-de-Seine.
In the 1920s his writings were put on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Roman Catholic Church, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
Plays
- The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife
Famous sayings
- "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- "I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
- "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- "When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
- "Let us give to men irony and pity as witnesses and judges."
- "Make hatred hated."
- "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those that other people have lent me."
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