Anatole France
Overview
 
Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire in central France.It is located northwest of Tours on the other side of the Loire. , the town's population was 15,975. It is the third largest city in the Tours department, behind only Tours and Joué-lès-Tours.-Twin towns — Sister...

. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements.
The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books.
Quotations

La souffrance! quelle divine méconnu! Nous lui devons tout ce qu'il ya de bon en nous, tout ce qui donne du prix à la vie; nous lui devons la pitié, nous lui devons le courage, nous lui devons toutes les vertus.

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

 
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