It may be fairly claimed that no great author has written about children with a more delicate and sympathetic insight than Anatole France, and in no section of his work are the grace and tenderness of his genius more winningly exhibited than in those exquisite vignettes in which, giving himself the name of Pierre NoziPre, he recalls the days of his own childhood on the Quai Malaquais and the Quai Voltaire. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.