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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Sources and Further Reading · Part 1
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Sources and Further Reading
The register identifies the digital sources linked from the annotations and the editorial matter. Source identifiers in square brackets refer to the entries below. A source is evidence for the particular point for which it is cited; archival catalogue descriptions are distinguished from consultation of the underlying document.
Source register
[S001] Anatole France, Les Dieux ont soif, Calmann-Lévy printing with 1912 copyright page, Google Books CUNMAAAAMAAJ. Online source
[S002] Google Books CUNMAAAAMAAJ, copyright page dated 1912. Online source
[S003] BnF catalogue, Les dieux ont soif, Paris C. Lévy, dépôt légal 1912, FRBNF30457694. Online source
[S004] Project Gutenberg 36477, French transcription of Les Dieux ont soif. Online source
[S005] Wikisource, Les dieux ont soif, complete French transcription. Online source
[S006] Internet Archive, Les dieux ont soif, University of Toronto copy, catalogue date 1921. Online source
[S007] BnF CCFr, manuscript and publication dossier for Les dieux ont soif, 1911–12 serialisation and 1912 volume. Online source
[S008] Académie française, Anatole France, biographical record. Online source
[S009] Sénat, Anatole France 1844–1924, writer and librarian. Online source
[S010] Kathryn Calley Galitz, The Legacy of Jacques Louis David, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Online source
[S011] Decree on the division of Paris into 48 sections, 21 May 1790, Archives parlementaires XV, p.650. Online source
[S012] Address of the Pont-Neuf section to the Convention, 8 September 1793, Archives parlementaires LXXIII, p.532. Online source
[S013] BnF Comité d’histoire, Paris. Barnabites. Online source
[S014] Musée Carnavalet, La façade de l’église des Blancs-Manteaux, 1865, P1024. Online source
[S015] Académie française, Dictionnaire, eighth edition, pot. Online source
[S016] Académie française, Dictionnaire, eighth edition, entablement. Online source
[S017] Antoine Desgodets, architectural manuscript, Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance. Online source
[S018] French Bishops’ Conference, Liturgie & Sacrements, Rochet. Online source
[S019] Présidence de la République, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Online source
[S020] Musée du Louvre, Brutus, premier Consul, de retour en sa maison après avoir condamné ses deux fils, INV3693. Online source
[S021] Musée du Louvre, Jacques-Louis David, dossier pédagogique, Brutus fiche. Online source
[S022] L’Histoire par l’image, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Online source
[S023] Musée de la Révolution française, L’Hommage de la Révolution française à Jean-Jacques Rousseau, exhibition dossier. Online source
[S024] Assemblée nationale, Louis, Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Sycomore biography. Online source
[S025] Ville de Paris, Parcours Révolution, Un lieu du crime politique. Online source
[S026] Musée Carnavalet, Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen. Online source
[S027] Académie française, Dictionnaire, eighth edition, épître. Online source
[S028] Musée Carnavalet, Paris1793–1794 exhibition press dossier, p.14. Online source
[S029] Académie française, carmagnole, ninth edition. Online source
[S030] Jean Jaurès, La Convention, quotation of decree21March1793. Online source
[S031] Paul Caraman, Le Comité de surveillance de la commune de Targon,1931,p.61. Online source
[S032] Michel Pertué, La liste des Girondins de Jean-Paul Marat, Annales historiques de la Révolution française245(1981),p.379. Online source
[S033] Musée Carnavalet, Révolution française: acquittement de Jean-Paul Marat,24April1793. Online source
[S034] Archives nationales, France.Convention nationale(1792–1795), local surveillance. Online source
[S035] Archives nationales, notarial authority record011120. Online source
[S036] Académie française, pur, ninth edition, substantive sense. Online source
[S037] BnF CCFr, Municipalité de Paris.Districts.Sections,1792–1798,MS2-MS-753. Online source
[S038] French Ministry of Defence digital library, L’armée de Mayence en1793. Online source
[S039] Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire,Révolution et guerre de Vendée. Online source
[S040] Archives de Lyon,Lyon n’est plus. Online source
[S041] Théophile Lavallée,Histoire de Paris,I(1857),revolutionarylevies. Online source
[S042] Émile Littré,Dictionnaire de la langue française,munition. Online source
[S043] Décret de la Convention nationale du23février1793 qui autorise les communes à convertir leurs cloches en canons,NationalInstituteofInformaticscatalogue. Online source
[S044] Administrators of Bazas to the Convention,23November1793,ArchivesparlementairesLXXIX,p.666. Online source
[S045] Archives de l’Orne,La création du département de l’Orne. Online source
[S046] FranceArchives,Justice de paix de Baud. Online source
[S047] Assemblée nationale,Août–septembre1792,Élection de la Convention nationale—introduction du suffrage universel. Online source
[S048] Instruction pour tous les citoyens qui voudront exploiter eux-mêmes du salpêtre,4December1793,ArchivesparlementairesLXXX,pp.620–622. Online source
[S049] Académie française,lessiver,ninth edition. Online source
[S050] Assemblée nationale,Adam,Philippe Custine de Sarëck,Sycomorebiography. Online source
[S051] BnFCCFr,Adam-PhilippeCustine,condamnéàmort,27August1793,4-AFF-003769. Online source
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Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Sources and Further Reading · Sources and Further Reading · Part 1
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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.