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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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English Introduction · Branch 110 of 120
Outline of the Novel · Part 3
English
The Convention’s troops enter; Robespierre is wounded and Gamelin attempts suicide.
Chapter XXVIII
Paris celebrates Robespierre’s fall and the Tribunal serves the victors.
Gamelin faces the court he once occupied and is identified by his neighbours.
The cart carries him through the rejoicing city.
He interprets his punishment as deserved for excessive mercy.
Élodie throws a red carnation from the blue room.
Chapter XXIX
The print shop replaces revolutionary martyrdom with anti-Robespierre imagery and anticipates military glory.
Desmahis remembers Gamelin’s abandoned art while Blaise repudiates him.
Julie survives through work, new attachments and anti-Jacobin fury.
The friends visit Thévenin’s luxurious house, then attend a politically violent theatre performance.
Élodie recognises Henry, returns with Desmahis and burns her Marat ring.
The novel ends in the blue room; the printer’s colophon belongs to the source appendix.
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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.
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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.