| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| France, Anatole |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr ns, frä s |
| DATES: | 1844–1924 |
| VARIANTS: | Pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault. |
| French critic and writer of sophisticated, often satirical short stories and novels, including Penguin Island (1908). He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for literature.
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