Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French novelist, dramatist and musicologist born in Clamecy. He wrote the ten-volume Jean-Christophe, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, corresponded with Tolstoy, Gandhi and Freud, and was a lifelong pacifist. His works include Jean-Christophe, Colas Breugnon, and the lives of Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy.
