Anatole France

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Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole Fran�ois Thibault.

Born in Paris, France, 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. His books include Penguin Island, a satire on the Dreyfus affair published in 1908.

Anatole France died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire and was buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery, Hauts-de-Seine.

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."

External links

• Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of Anatole France's works
• Anatole France Biography

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Anatole_France" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France, used under the GNU Free Documentation License