Anatole France Quotes


Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?


Citations

France, Anatole. Monsieur Bergeret in Paris. Translated by B. Drillien, John Lane, 1921.

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Anatole France
Anatole France
  • Born: April 16, 1844
  • Died: October 12, 1924
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist

Anatole France 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. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".