"France (anatole) - The Latin Genius. Calmann Lévy, 1917, Numbered Copy On Holland Paper."
FRANCE (Anatole) - The Latin Genius. Paris, Calmann Lévy, Publisher, 1917; 12mo, 407 pp., paperback. First edition, numbered copy on Holland paper. Copy to be bound. Anatole France was a writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. He accompanied the Third Republic both as a writer and as a literary critic. He took part in the request for a review of the Dreyfus trial. Anatole France had a developed social conscience; he was close to the SFIO, but remained critical of the Communist Party. He published numerous works.