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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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The Gods Are Athirst
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Anatole France
The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif
French–English bilingual edition Complete novel, with introduction and notes
Diotimos Editions 2026
New English translation and editorial matter generated and revised with AI for Diotimos Editions.
Novel published in volume in 1912; complete French reading text from Project Gutenberg 36477, whose underlying impression is undated and bears a later Brodard & Taupin colophon. Chapter I checked against a separate 1912 printing.
Reading this edition
French and English are paired by source paragraph. Wider screens display the languages side by side; narrow screens place the English after its French paragraph. Notes are numbered within each chapter. Select a note number to open its annotation in compatible readers; all notes also appear at the end of their chapter, with return links. Bracketed source identifiers link to the source register.
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Anatole France’s The Gods Are Athirst follows the painter Évariste Gamelin as revolutionary conviction draws him into the work of the Revolutionary Tribunal. This complete French–English edition preserves the novel’s twenty-nine chapters, paired by source paragraph, with an introduction, historical orientation, glossary, and chapter notes.
Historical Text and Translation
The novel appeared in volume in 1912. The complete French reading text follows Project Gutenberg eBook 36477, whose underlying impression is undated and carries a later Brodard & Taupin colophon. Chapter I was also checked against a separate 1912 printing; that limited collation is distinguished from the source used for the whole novel.
About Diotimos Editions
The new English translation and editorial matter were generated and revised with AI for Diotimos Editions. The reader preserves the supplied paragraph pairing, songs, quoted letters, and 431 chapter notes, together with the source register and the edition’s statement of editorial responsibility.
Rights
Anatole France’s French source work is in the public domain. The new 2026 English translation and Diotimos editorial matter are credited as supplied in this bilingual edition.