French antique silver medal, Anatole France, 1844 J’ai ete nourri sur les quais, ou les vieux livres se melent aux paysages; Metal: Silver; “ARGENT” on the rim Diameter: 67 mm; Weight: 168 g = 5.9 oz. Condition: used, original patina, no defects Authenticity report: 100% genuine Anatole France (French: [anat?l f???s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [fr??swa anat?l tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful 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 for 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.[1]