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"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom"
... Anatole France (1844-1924), French poet, journalist, and novelist. 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The clerics and reactionaries hated him in just the same way as they hated Zola. France had lost no opportunity of poking fun at the Church. He was everything that the clerics and revanchists, the people who afterwards sucked the blacking off Hitler's boots, most detested.
ReplyDeleteOn 31 May 1922, France's entire works were put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Prohibited Books Index) of the Roman Catholic Church. He regarded this as a "distinction". The Index was abolished in 1966.
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