Anatole France

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Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1921.

He is the author of The Garden of Epicurus (1895), a collection of prose.

In The Gods Are Thirsty (1912), a fable about terror set during the most horrifying years of the French Revolution, he quotes Lucretius.

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Antaole France had a smallish brain of 1000cc -- about one-third smaller than the modern human average. "Though he wore the smallest hat in Paris," writes Robert Ardrey, "nothing prevented him from being one of the great French authors."