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Born Romain ROLLAND
French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
Born on January 29, 1866 in Clamecy, France , France
Died on December 30, 1944 in Vézelay, France
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Accepted to the École normale supérieure in 1886, he first studied philosophy, but his independence of spirit led him to abandon that so as not to submit to the dominant ideology.
... Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre into a family that had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage. Writing introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (1942), he sees himself as a representative of an "antique species". He would cast these ancestors in Colas Breugnon (1919).
Accepted to the École normale supérieure in 1886, he first studied philosophy, but his independence of spirit led him to abandon that so as not to submit to the dominant ideology.
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