Anatole France
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Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Several of his books were best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member
Anatole France young years
France's home, 5 villa Saïd, 1894–1924
France c. 1921
Anatole France on a postage stamp of Armenia, 2015
Marcel Proust
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 19
Anatole France
…sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". France is also widely believed to be the model for Bergotte, the literary idol of the narrator Marcel in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The son of a bookseller, France, a bibliophile, spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore specialised in…
Proust in 1900
Marcel Proust (seated), Robert de Flers (left), and Lucien Daudet (right), c. 1894