Terracotta bust late 19th/early 20th century.
Anatole France, for civil status François Anatole Thibault, born April 16, 1844 in Paris and died October 12, 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), is a French writer, considered to be the one of the greatest of the era of the Third Republic, of which he was also one of the most important literary critics. He became one of the most significant consciences of his time by committing to numerous social and political causes of the early 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for all of his work in 1921.