1. Anatole France was a member of the Academie Francaise, 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".
Anatole France studied at the College Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduation he helped his father by working in his bookstore.
Anatole France began his literary career as a poet and a journalist.
Anatole France was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1896.
Anatole France signed Emile Zola's manifesto supporting Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer who had been falsely convicted of espionage.
Anatole France wrote about the affair in his 1901 novel Monsieur Bergeret.
Anatole France died on 13 October 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery near Paris.
In 1877, Anatole France married Valerie Guerin de Sauville, a granddaughter of Jean-Urbain Guerin, a miniaturist who painted Louis XVI.
In 1920, Anatole France married for the second time, his housekeeper Emma Laprevotte.
Anatole France had socialist sympathies and was an outspoken supporter of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The English writer George Orwell defended Anatole France and declared that his work remained very readable, and that "it is unquestionable that he was attacked partly from political motives".