(1844–1924), French writer; pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault. Works include the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881) and his ironic version of the Dreyfus case, L'Ile des pingouins (1908). Nobel Prize for Literature (1921).
Definition of France, Anatole in US English:
France, Anatole
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(1844–1924), French writer; pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault. Works include Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), L'Ile des pingouins (1908), and Les Dieux ont soif (1912). Nobel Prize for Literature (1921).