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born: 4/16/1844
died: 10/12/1924
born as: Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault
nationality: France

Writer and ironic, skeptical, and urbane critic who was considered in his day the ideal French man off letters. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1896 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature