ROLL AND, ROMAIN

(1866), a Fr. author; 6. at Clémacy. He was educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure and became profe or of the history of art at that school. He was afterwards appointed profe or of art at the Sorbonne. He wrote several plays and beginning in 1903 published several notable biographical and critical studies of musicians, artists and authors, and on the theater. In 1901 he founded the Revue Musicale. He won international fame by the publication of Jean-Chris top he, one of the most remarkable novels of the generation. For this he received one-fourth of the Nobel prize in literature, in 1915. During the World War he took a pacifist attitude and withdrew to Switzerland. This incurred for him the displeasure of the French people. His popularity returned, however, after the war and he published several novels which further increased his reputation. He also wrote a life of Tolstoi.