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.