WRITER

Anatole France

1844 - 1924

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Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatole France has received more than 942,637 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Anatole France is the 117th most popular writer (down from 106th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from France (down from 114th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Writer.

Anatole France is most famous for his novel "The Red and the Black."

Memorability Metrics

  • 940k

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  • 76.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les dieux ont soif
French literature, Fiction, History
1900
Thaïs
Translations from French, Translations into English, Fiction in English
Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.[2]
1889
Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
Fiction, Book collectors in fiction, Book collectors
1890
Ile des pingouins
Translations into English, French fiction
1908
1885
Le livre de mon ami
Lectures et morceaux choisis, French language, Readers
1885
Ile des pingouins
Fiction, humorous, general, Translations into English, French fiction
1908
Les dieux ont soif
French literature, Fiction, History
1900
The red lily
Fiction, general
1898
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
Fiction, Book collectors in fiction, Book collectors
1890
Thaïs
Translations from French, Translations into English, Fiction in English
Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.[2]
1889
Le livre de mon ami
Lectures et morceaux choisis, French language, Readers
1885
Les dieux ont soif
French literature, Fiction, History
1900
Le livre de mon ami
Lectures et morceaux choisis, French language, Readers
1885
Thaïs
Translations from French, Translations into English, Fiction in English
Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.[2]
1889
Ile des pingouins
Fiction, humorous, general, Translations into English, French fiction
1908
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
Fiction, Book collectors in fiction, Book collectors
1890
The red lily
Fiction, general
1898
Thaïs
Translations from French, Translations into English, Fiction in English
Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity. Yet on their return to the desert he becomes fascinated with her former life. She enters a convent to repent of her sins. He cannot forget the pull of her famous beauty, and becomes confused about the values of life. Later, as she is dying and can only see heaven opening before her, he comes to her side and tells her that her faith is an illusion, and that he loves her.[2]
1889
Le livre de mon ami
Lectures et morceaux choisis, French language, Readers
1885
Ile des pingouins
Fiction, humorous, general, Translations into English, French fiction
1908
Les dieux ont soif
French literature, Fiction, History
1900
The red lily
Fiction, general
1898
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
Fiction, Book collectors in fiction, Book collectors
1890

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anatole France ranks 117 out of 7,302. Before him are Apuleius, Jean de La Fontaine, George Bernard Shaw, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, and Federico García Lorca. After him are Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, Charlotte Brontë, and Lewis Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Anatole France ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, and Sarah Bernhardt. After him are Paul Verlaine, Mehmed V, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernadette Soubirous, Henri Rousseau, Ilya Repin, Umberto I of Italy, and Mary Cassatt. Among people deceased in 1924, Anatole France ranks 4. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, Franz Kafka, and Giacomo Puccini. After him are Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anatole France ranks 120 out of 6,770. Before him are Hector Berlioz (1803), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), Charles VII of France (1403), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Charles VIII of France (1470), and Roman Polanski (1933). After him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Hugh Capet (940), Charles VI of France (1368), and Thérèse of Lisieux (1873).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Anatole France ranks 26. Before him are François Rabelais (1494), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and Sully Prudhomme (1839). After him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Paul Verlaine (1844), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), and Petronius (27).

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