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Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the Rue
Notre-Dame des Champs. His father was a bookbinder
and worked for the Religious Houses. Jean was
a little weakling child, and his mother n...
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The works of the French novelist and essayist Anatole France (1844-1924) combine classical purity of style with penetrating flashes of irony. He is a major figure in the tradition of liberal humanism ...
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In 1927 poet Paul Valéry delivered his discours de réception, or initial speech, to the Académie Française after being elected two years earlier to fill the seat of Anatole...
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The Aspirations of Jean Servien
Anatole France
Anatole France