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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Medical anomaly
Anatole France had a brain just two-thirds the normal size, but this had no recorded effect on his life in any way.
Early life
The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books. 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 and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. After several years he secured the position of a cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre. In 1876 he was appointed a librarian for the French Senate.
Literary career
Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. He became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881).
He was elected to the Académie française in 1896.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died in 1924 and is buried in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.
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