Editing Anatole France (section)

==Personal life==
In 1877, France married Valérie Guérin de Sauville, a granddaughter of [[Jean-Urbain Guérin]], a [[Portrait miniature|miniaturist]] who painted [[Louis XVI]].<ref name="Leduc2004">{{cite book |author=Édouard Leduc |title=Anatole France avant l'oubli |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRpAHOLmpF4C&pg=PA222|year=2004|publisher=Éditions Publibook |isbn=978-2-7483-0397-1 |pages=219, 222–}}</ref> Their daughter Suzanne was born in 1881 (and died in 1918).

France's relations with women were always turbulent, and in 1888 he began a relationship with [[Léontine Lippmann|Madame Arman de Caillavet]], who conducted a celebrated literary salon of the [[Third Republic of France|Third Republic]]. The affair lasted until shortly before her death in 1910.<ref name="Leduc2004"/>

After his divorce, in 1893, France had many liaisons, notably with an American, Laura Gagey, who committed suicide in 1911 after he abandoned her.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leduc|first1=Edouard |title=Anatole France avant l'oubli |publisher=Editions Publibook |isbn=9782748303971 |page=223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRpAHOLmpF4C&pg=PA223 |language=fr |year=2006}}</ref>

In 1920, France married for the second time, his housekeeper Emma Laprévotte.<ref name="Lahy-Hollebecque">{{cite book |author=Lahy-Hollebecque, M. |year=1924 |title={{lang|fr|Anatole France et la femme}} 252 pp |publisher=Baudinière}}</ref>

France had [[socialist]] sympathies and was an outspoken supporter of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]]. In 1920, he gave his support to the newly founded [[French Communist Party]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Anatole+France |title=Anatole France |encyclopedia=The Free Dictionary |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref> In his book ''[[The Red Lily (novel)|The Red Lily]]'', France famously wrote, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Go |first1=Johann J. |title=Structure, choice, and responsibility |journal=Ethics & Behavior |date=2020 |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=230–246 |doi=10.1080/10508422.2019.1620610|s2cid=197698306 }}</ref>