Anatole France (Anatole Thibault, 1844–1924) was an ironic and skeptical French writer. In his L’Eglise et la République (1904) he severely attacked Napoleon for his “Concordat” with the Church. In 1896 he was elected to the French Academy, and in 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for literature. (M 40706) _ _.
Discovered on 27-2-1998 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.