<p>Caricature of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France" class="extiw" title="en:Anatole France">Anatole France</a>. Caption read "The Greatest Living Frenchman".
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<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".
Jean Baptiste Guth
1909
<p>Original pastel, watercolour and bodycolour. Published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)" class="extiw" title="en:Vanity Fair (British magazine)">Vanity Fair</a>, 11 August 1909. 
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