Anders Zorn

Anatole France; born François-Anatole Thibault, (16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several bestsellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was regarded in his time as the quintessential French author. He was a member of the Académie française and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921 "as a recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, which are characterised by an aristocracy of style, a deep human sympathy, grace, and a genuine Gallic temperament."

France is also considered to be the model for the narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.