Named after Anatole France (1844–1924), French writer.
Born François Anatole Thibault in Paris, the son of a bookseller, he was a poet, journalist and novelist. He signed Émile Zola’s manifesto supporting Alfred Dreyfus, was elected to the Académie française in 1896 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. In Bonnevoie his street continues Rue Pierre Krier as far as the Gantebeensmillen, a former mill.