Tavern of Queen Goose Feet

For the first time, the satirical novel Tavern of Queen Goose Feet by Anatole France was published in 1892, two years after the release of his novel Thaïs. France was yet to become a member of the French Academy, write his famous novels The Gods are Thirsty and The Revolt of the Angels, and receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. 

His love for books, reading, and literature began in childhood, as the father of the future writer owned a bookstore. It is not surprising that in his youth, Anatole became one of the participants in the Parnassian school of a circle of young writers and poets united around Théophile Gautier. 

At the end of the 1870s, Anatole France became the leading literary critic for the newspaper Le Temps. However, he was only able to seriously engage in literary creativity after obtaining the position of deputy director of the library of the French Senate. 

The first notoriety for France came from the novel published in 1881, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. It was a witty satire on hypocrisy and stupidity.