Anatole France, Who Received Nobel Prize in Literature, Has Died, Oct. 14, 1924

Famous French Author Is Dead

Anatole France and his wife during a recent vacation on the shores of the Meiterranian. He was the winner of the 1921 Nobel prize for literature.

Noted Author Is Dead at His Home in France. . . Anatole France, Great French Author, Is Dead, Had Been Ill Only a Few Days, His Advanced Age of 80 Held Little Home for His Recovery

Paris, Oct. 13—The desire of the French government to give Anatole France a national funeral cannot be realized as parliament is not in session, making it impossible to pass the special act which would be necessary to accord national honors to the famous author.

The state therefore will assume the cost of the funeral as it did in the case of Leon Cambetti, famous statesman who died when Parliament was not in session.

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Tours, France, Oct. 13—Anatole France is dead.

His end came peacefully yesterday. From August last the state of the great French writer’s health had caused anxiety. Gradually his condition became worse, until only a few days ago he himself expressed the conviction that he had but a few hours of life remaining.

Owing to his advanced age, 90 years, there was no expectation of his recovery, but almost up to the end he retained his interest in those around him and was able at time to converse briefly.

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Anatole France, noted French author, who in October, 1920, at the age of 76 married Mille. Emma LaPrevotte, more than 40 years his junior, declaring that he was “staring life anew,” was an officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the French Academy.

France’s real name was. He was born in Paris on April 16, 1844, the son of a book seller, land educated at Stanislaus College. For more than half a century he was famous as a critic, essayist and novelist, possessing a style “compounded on neologisms, rare epithets and startling forms of expression.” He was a skeptic in religion, metaphysics, morals, politics, aesthetics and science, in doubt often even of his own negative conclusions.

In later years his ideals underwent a change. He became an advocate of Russian Bolshevism. France first became interested in politics at the time of the Dreyfus’ trial, due, it was said, to his love for a Jewess.

The veteran academician enlisted as a private in the French army at the outbreak of the World War. Ten years ago it was reported that he was engaged to marry Mlle. Brindean, an actress whom he met while returning to France from Buenos Aires. The name of Mme. Caillovet was mentioned in connection with the estrangement, it being reported that the author had been helped by her during his early struggles for recognition as a writer.

The works of M. France included a study of “Alfred de Vigny,” (1868); a volume of verse, “Les Poemes dores,” (1873); “Les Noces corinthiennes,” (1876); “Jocaste et le Chat maigre,” (1879); Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard,” (1881); “Les Desirs de Jean Servien,” (1882); “Le Livre de mon ami,” (1885); “Nos enfants,” (1886); “Balthazar,” (1889); “Thais,” (1890); “La Vie litteraire,” (1890); “L’Etuie de Nacre,” (1892); “L’Eivire de Lamartine,” (1893); “Les Opinions de Monsieur Jerome Cogniard,” (1893); “La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque,” (1893); “Le Lys Rouge,” (1894); “Le Puits de Sainte-Claire,” (1895); “Le Jardin d’Epicare,” (1895); “Poesies,” (1896); “Le Mannequin d’oisar,” (1897); “L’Orme du Mail,” (1897); “L’Anneau d’amethysete,” (1899); “Clio,” (1899); “M. Bergeret a Paris,” (1901); “Le Procurateur de Judee,” (1902); “Mme. De Luzy,” (1902); “Memoires d’un volontaire,” (1902); “Histore comique,” (1903); “L’Eglise et la Republique,” (1905); “Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame,” (1906); “Sainte Euphrosyne,” (1906); “Histore de Jeanne d’Arc,” (1908); “Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe Bleue,” (1909); “La Revolte des Angres,” (1914).

From the front page of the Wilson Times, Oct. 14, 1924

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