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Anatole France

The Gods Are Athirst

Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition

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Sources and Further Reading · Part 3

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[S117] Larousse, affaire des poisons. Online source

[S118] Musée du Louvre, Sarcophage d’Achille à Skyros. Online source

[S119] CNRTL, exagéré. Online source

[S120] Police nationale, La Révolution française (1789–1799). Online source

[S121] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XII. Online source

[S122] Barbier, Chronique, January 1747. Online source

[S123] Archives de l’Orne, Les tensions liées à la constitution civile du clergé. Online source

[S124] Ordine dei Chierici Regolari di S. Paolo, Storia. Online source

[S125] AELF, Acts of the Apostles 22. Online source

[S126] Assemblée nationale, Révolution française. Online source

[S127] Musée Carnavalet, Caricature thermidorienne sur les massacres de septembre. Online source

[S128] Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, Mai 1793 (journée du 31). Online source

[S129] Molière, Dom Juan, act III, scene 2. Online source

[S130] L’Histoire par l’image, Le siège de Toulon. Online source

[S131] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XIII. Online source

[S132] Encyclopédie, first edition, Dominicains. Online source

[S133] IRHT–CNRS, Couvent Saint-Jacques. Online source

[S134] Ville de Paris, Le quartier du Champ-de-Mars. Online source

[S135] Musée du Louvre, Publication de la loi martiale au Champ-de-Mars. Online source

[S136] Robespierre, Discours, 21 October 1789–1 July 1794, French primary text. Online source

[S137] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XIV. Online source

[S138] AELF, Daniel 4. Online source

[S139] Assemblée nationale, Claude Fauchet. Online source

[S140] Sénat, L’abbé Grégoire. Online source

[S141] Lactantius, De ira Dei, XIII, Latin and French. Online source

[S142] BnF, Antoine Guénée. Online source

[S143] Littré, théophage. Online source

[S144] AELF, First Corinthians 6. Online source

[S145] Comédie-Française, Mademoiselle Raucourt. Online source

[S146] Ville de Paris, Le Palais-Royal. Online source

[S147] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XV. Online source

[S148] Commune de Wattignies-la-Victoire, La bataille de Wattignies. Online source

[S149] Laurent to the Convention, 22 October, read 24 October 1793. Online source

[S150] Barère, Report on civic requisition, 23 August 1793. Online source

[S151] Wellcome Collection, Eudamidas dictating his will, engraving after Poussin. Online source

[S152] Lucian, Toxaris, §§22–23, nineteenth-century text. Online source

[S153] Musée Carnavalet, Les 21 Députés de la Gironde devant le Tribunal révolutionnaire. Online source

[S154] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XVI. Online source

[S155] UK Government, William Pitt the Younger. Online source

[S156] Assemblée nationale, Convention nationale et calendrier républicain. Online source

[S157] Archives de Chalon-sur-Saône, Calendrier républicain. Online source

[S158] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, liard (1740). Online source

[S159] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, denier (1878). Online source

[S160] NIST, Kilogram: The Past. Online source

[S161] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, fumeron (1798). Online source

[S162] BnF, Madame Roland, girondine et mémorialiste. Online source

[S163] Archives parlementaires, Decree on the republican calendar, 19 Brumaire II. Online source

[S164] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XVII (1912). Online source

[S165] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, eighth edition: Biribi. Online source

[S166] UK Government, History of William Pitt the Younger. Online source

[S167] Sylvain Maréchal, Le Jugement dernier des rois, 1793. Online source

[S168] United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: John 19. Online source

[S169] Archives parlementaires: Robespierre proposes measures to secure freedom of worship, 15 frimaire II. Online source

[S170] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XVIII (1912). Online source

[S171] Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2.20–21. Online source

[S172] Sénat: L’Histoire du Palais du Luxembourg. Online source

[S173] Louvre: Siège et prise du château des Tuileries, 10 août 1792. Online source

[S174] BnF Catalogue collectif de France: Loi contre les émigrés, 28 mars 1793. Online source

[S175] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XIX (1912). Online source

[S176] Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française: pistole, sense 3. Online source

[S177] L’Histoire par l’image: Révolution et Religion. Online source

[S178] Université de Liège: Un tableau de Léonard Defrance perdu et retrouvé. Online source

[S179] Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Dupuis, in Abrégé de l’origine de tous les cultes. Online source

[S180] Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford: La Pucelle. Online source

[S181] BnF Catalogue collectif de France: Lesage, Le Diable boiteux, 1707. Online source

[S182] Lucretius, De rerum natura, book III, Latin text. Online source

[S183] Jean de La Fontaine, Les Grenouilles qui demandent un Roi. Online source

[S184] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XX (1912). Online source

[S185] National Army Museum: The Restoration and the birth of the British Army. Online source

[S186] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXI (1912). Online source

[S187] Ministère de la Culture, Joconde: François Boucher, Pastorale. Online source

[S188] L’Histoire par l’image: La Fête de l’Être suprême, 20 prairial an II (8 juin 1794). Online source

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.