Anatole France · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Anatole France
Born: 16 April 1844, Paris, France
Died: 12 October 1924, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France
Aliases: Anatole France; A. France; François Anatole Thibault; Nicole Langelier; Albert Laporte; Gerôme
Position in 1919–1920: Writer, critic and public intellectual
Affiliations: Académie française; socialist and Dreyfusard public causes (specific party membership unknown)
Council delegate: unknown
Bio: France combined a major literary career with public interventions on social and political questions, including the defense of Dreyfus. In the early twentieth century he developed socialist sympathies and maintained a close intellectual and political relationship with Jean Jaurès. His two contributions in Issue 15 remember Jaurès’s opposition to war and urge teachers to cultivate peace, skilled work and international solidarity. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
Articles: 3
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: Former Senate librarian (1876–1890). Personal-name forms vary across reference works; the catalog retains the established literary name. The BnF records the additional pseudonyms Nicole Langelier, Albert Laporte and Gerôme. No elected council mandate is established.

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