Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
This author wrote a novel in which the Marquis Tudesco tries to help the title character become a good citizen, The Aspirations of Jean Servien. One of this author's characters runs into Madame Trepof, whose husband collects match-boxes, after acquiring a Clark Alexander translation of The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragine. In another of his novels, a certain society's property rights are established by knocking each other on the head. That novel, in which Charlemagne is represented by Draco the Great, features a discussion between God and the saints about the validity of the snow-blind Breton monk Mael's baptism of the title animals. For 10 points, name this French author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard and Penguin Island.
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Literature