Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Clamecy
- Educated at
- Lycée Saint-LouisLycée Louis-le-GrandÉcole Normale SupérieureUniversity of Paris
- Awards
- 🏆 Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française🏆 Prix Femina🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Trending topics shown first"In politics, he has always been a republican with advanced Socialist sympathies, and internationalist at heart, and, as they said in the eighteenth century, a "citizen of the world." He has always fou…"
"I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries."
"Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others."
"What I especially love in Lefebvre, is this intimate alliance—which for me makes the true man—of pessimism of the intelligence, which penetrates every illusion, and optimism of the will."
"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."
"I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so."
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Timeline
1866
Born
Birth1944
Died
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