Show aided anatole france mine arman de caillavet profoundly influenced his career and became his lifelong life lorig friend she was clever and had a host of acquaintances quain among the leading figures of literature and politics she constantly worked for the fame of anatole france and forced him out of his inertia into composition extracts from their correspondence show the imbor tant part she p played in his writings in the dedication of crain que quebelle bille the author said to mine de caillavet this book which I 1 should not have written without her help for without her help I 1 should write no books |