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Anatole France was probably the most famous French man of letters of his time. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A. Jacques Anatole Thibault
B. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
C. William Sidney Porter
D. John Dickson Carr
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