Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre to a family of notaries; he had both peasants and wealthy townspeople in his lineage. Writing introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (1942), he sees himself as a representative of an "antique species". He would cast these ancestors in Colas Breugnon (1919).Accepted to the école nor...
Roman Roland, was born in France in 1866 clamecy. Thinker, writer, critic, writer, music critic, social activist. Winner of the 1915 Nobel prize for literature. Life is the strug...
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, essayist, art historian, mystic and pacifist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915....
