Keywords: Anatole France Vanity Fair 11 August 1909.jpg Caricature of Anatole France Caption read The Greatest Living Frenchman <br>Accompanying biography in Vanity Fair read His French was at once acknowledged to be finer than Renan's; as easy and as polished as the elder master; even more rhythmic and shot through with delicious irony and curiously perfect literary treatment Anatole France is the greatest of living Frenchmen - the greatest writer in Christendom today Original pastel watercolour and bodycolour Published in Vanity Fair 11 August 1909 <br>Downloaded from Christie's online 4647153 1909 Jean Baptiste Guth PD-Art <gallery> File Anatole France Vanity Fair 1909-08-11 jpg Full page version </gallery> DEFAULTSORT France Anatole Vanity Fair caricatures writers Caricatures of writers from France Jean Baptiste Guth Portraits of Anatole France Vanity Fair 11 August August 1909 Vanity Fair caricatures frenchmen |