FRANCE, ANATOLE

(1844), Jacques Anatole Thibault, greatest figure in eral; contemporary Fr. literature; at Collége| Fr. Stan is las imbibed knowledge of Greek | Fr. in many of his stories; turned in 1876|2Md from poetry to prose of finest cla .|@fmy character, the pure mirror of Fr. intel-| fighting lect, wit, and urbanity. Amongst his 1918, most famous works ee Le Crime de | in the pao Nacre, ane, 1892; LESG La Roti erie me de la Reine peated forced Pedauque; Les Opinions de M. Jerome Hes Coignard, 1893; Le Lys Rouge, 1894; Pierre Noziere, 1899; Sur la Pierre blanche, 1905; Vie Jeanne d’ Arc, 1908, replied to by Andrew Lang; Les Sept the Femmes de la Barbe Bleue, 1909; La Revolie des Anges, 1914. His philosophy DI appears to be purely negative and agItal, nostic, but taken as a whole his work is Gallery) the largest contribution to humanist Italian criticism since Voltaire.