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Jules Renard was a French author whose literary output included twenty-five works. Among his notable titles are *Poil de carotte*, *L'écornifleur*, *Monsieur Vernet*, *Le plaisir de romper*, *Le pain de ménage*, and *La bigote*. He is also associated with the work *Fransuʼah Rosh gezer*.
Renard was born in 1864 and died in 1910. His writings have been the subject of various scholarly references, with different databases cataloging between two and five specific works. He has been referenced by eighty-eight other encyclopedia articles.
Several quotes are attributed to him, including the statement that "It is necessary to love nature and men in spite of their mud." He also wrote that "A truly free man is one who knows how to refuse an invitation to dinner without giving pretexts" and described the layman as "the man who tirelessly seeks God and never finds Him."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1864
- Died
- 1910
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Poil de carotte
- פרנסואה ראש גזר
- L'écornifleur
- Poil de carotte ; Monsieur Vernet ; Le plaisir de rompre ; Le pain de ménage ; La bigote
- Fransuʼah Rosh gezer
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 55
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
· 2010 · cited 9,374x
- Clinical Targets for Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data Interpretation: Recommendations From the International Consensus on Time in Range
· 2019 · cited 3,453x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,320x
- The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults
· 1996 · cited 3,054x
- The Host Defense of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2007 · cited 3,029x
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Quotes
- “It is necessary to love nature and men in spite of their mud. (March 27, C.E.1893; Vergani, p. 65)”
- “A truly free man is one who knows how to refuse an invitation to dinner without giving pretexts. (November 25, C.E.1895)”
- “The layman is the man who tirelessly seeks God and never finds Him. (June 16, C.E.1902; Vergani, p. 198)”
- “It is tremendous how hard it is to take an interest in the ailments of others when you are well. (January 26, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 281)”
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Jules Renard, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre-Jules Renard ( pronounced [pjɛʁ ʒyl ʁənaʁ]; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories, 1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking, 1898) and the posthumously published Huit Jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Country, 1912).
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jules Renard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.