The Seven Wives of Bluebeard and The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin (Esprios Classics)

Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault; 16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924) was a French poet journalist and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements characterized as they are by a nobility of style a profound human sympathy grace and a true Gallic temperament. France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.