Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland was born at Clamecy on 29 January 1866. Admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1886, he defended in 1895 a thesis on the origins of lyric theatre and from 1903 held the chair of the history of music at the Sorbonne, which he left in 1912 to write. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, a pacifist, he lived in Switzerland during the war and published there an appeal that caused a scandal in France. An admirer of Gandhi, he returned in 1937 to Vézelay, where he died on 30 December 1944.

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