Anatole France
Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful 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".
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Early years
The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books. France was a bibliophile. His father's bookstore, called the Librairie France, specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution and was frequented by many notable writers and scholars of the day. Anatole France studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduation he helped his father by working in his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre. In 1876 he was appointed librarian for the French Senate.
Anatole France (Paris Métro)
Anatole France is a station on Paris Métro Line 3. It is located in the commune of Levallois-Perret northwest of the capital. It was opened on 24 September 1937 when the line was extended from Porte de Champerret to Pont de Levallois – Bécon.
The station is on the Rue Anatole France, which is named after the author Anatole France, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
Station layout
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Street-level entrance
Street-level entrance
Line 3 platforms
Line 3 platforms
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France
France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European part of France, called metropolitan France, extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and has a total population of 66.6 million. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of France establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.
During the Iron Age, what is now Metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered in 51 BC by the Roman Empire, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of France. France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening French state-building and paving the way for a future centralized absolute monarchy. During the Renaissance, France experienced a vast cultural development and established the beginning of a global colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).
France Ô
France Ô (pronounced: [fʁɑ̃s o]) is a French public television network featuring programming from the French overseas departments and collectivities in Metropolitan France. It is part of the France Télévisions group. Its overseas counterpart is Outre-Mer 1ère.
It is available through cable, satellite, ADSL and the new digital terrestrial television system.
Formerly known as RFO Sat, the channel was originally broadcasting 9 hours per day only. It was re-branded France Ô in 2004 in order to better show it was part of the France Télévisions group. The "O" stands for Outre-mer (overseas), and the accent shows that the channel was opened to all accents and dialects of the world, but also ensures that the name of the channel is not read as France 0 ("France zéro").
The channel became available in overseas territories in November 2010, replacing the RFO-operated Tempo.
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French wine
French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of the largest wine producers in the world. French wine traces its history to the 6th century BC, with many of France's regions dating their wine-making history to Roman times. The wines produced range from expensive high-end wines sold internationally to more modest wines usually only seen within France as the Margnat wines were during the post war period.
Two concepts central to higher end French wines are the notion of "terroir", which links the style of the wines to the specific locations where the grapes are grown and the wine is made, and the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system. Appellation rules closely define which grape varieties and winemaking practices are approved for classification in each of France's several hundred geographically defined appellations, which can cover entire regions, individual villages or even specific vineyards.
'Anatole france' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Marie Curie, une femme honorable (1991)
Actors: Luigi Diberti (actor), Jerzy Gudejko (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Krzysztof Ibisz (actor), Emilian Kaminski (actor), Jerzy Kryszak (actor), René Loyon (actor), Henryk Machalica (actor), Piotr Machalica (actor), Jean-Luc Moreau (actor), Alain Mottet (actor), Jean-Pierre Sentier (actor), Andrzej Szczepkowski (actor), Roger Van Hool (actor), Xavier Depraz (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Affäre Dreyfus (1959)
Actors: Dieter Borsche (actor), Kurt Condé (actor), Hans Daniel (actor), Alexander Engel (actor), Willem Fricke (actor), Hans G. Harnisch (actor), Werner Hessenland (actor), Hans Hessling (actor), Hans Hinrich (actor), Richard Häussler (actor), Herbert Hübner (actor), Heinz Klingenberg (actor), Erwin Linder (actor), Konrad Mayerhoff (actor), Robert Meyn (actor),
Genres: Biography,The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Actors: Robert Barrat (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), Morris Carnovsky (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Robert Cummings Sr. (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Gilbert Emery (actor), Paul Everton (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor),
Plot: Fictionalized account of the life of famed French author Emile Zola. As portrayed in the film, he was a penniless writer sharing an apartment in Paris with painter Paul Cezanne when he finally wrote a best-seller, Nana. He has always had difficulty holding onto a job as he is quite outspoken, being warned on several occasions by the public prosecutor that he risks charges if he does not temper his writings. The bulk of the film deals with his involvement in the case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was falsely convicted of giving secret military information to the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devils Island. Antisemitism played an important role in the real-life case but is hardly mentioned in the film. Even after the military found definitive evidence that Dreyfus was innocent, the army decided to cover it up rather than face the scandal of having arbitrarily convicted the wrong man. Zola's famous letter, J'Accuse (I Accuse), led to his own trial for libel where he was found guilty and forced to flee to England. Dreyfus was eventually exonerated and restored to his military rank.
Keywords: 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, 20th-century, anti-semitism, army, artist, authorGenres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: Here Is True Greatness ! He'll Hold You In Silence As Deep As Your Emotions !
Quotes:
Émile Zola: Life is tricky.Émile Zola: [reading from his letter "I Accuse"] I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.
La Rue: We've been watching your writings, young man. You're a troublemaker! These articles of yours, attacking our leading men of letters, the arts! Criticizing the civic authorities!::Émile Zola: Perhaps you know of something better for me to criticize?
Émile Zola: At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal, which is the representative of human justice, before France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent! By all that I have won, by all that I have written to spread the spirit of France, I swear that he is innocent. May all that melt away; may my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent. He is innocent.
Émile Zola: Why didn't Picquart say anything?::Lucie Dreyfus: Colonel Picquart is a good officer. He kept silent at the request of his superiors.::Émile Zola: You mean they KNEW and they ordered him to suppress the truth? Why,that's monstrous!
Émile Zola: What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?
Minister of War: Books? Books? I don't read books!
Paul Cezanne: [Farewell goodbye to Zola] I won't write, but I'll remember.
France, Anatole Filmography
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2012, role: writer
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2004, role: writer
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1991, role: writer
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1984, role: writer
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1982, role: writer
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1981, role: writer
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1978, role: writer
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1975, role: writer
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1971, role: writer
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1969, role: writer
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1965, role: writer
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1962, role: writer
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1962, role: writer
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1958, role: writer
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1954, role: writer
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1944, role: writer
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1942, role: writer
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1935, role: writer
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1934, role: writer
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1926, role: writer
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1925, role: writer
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1922, role: writer
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1920, role: writer
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1917, role: writer
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1915, role: actor
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1914, role: writer
