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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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English Introduction · Branch 119 of 120
Sources and Further Reading · Part 4
English
[S189] L’Histoire par l’image: Le renforcement de la Terreur par le décret du 22 prairial. Online source
[S190] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXII (1912). Online source
[S191] Société historique du VIe arrondissement, Lettre d’information 28, May 2023, account of Sophie Momoro. Online source
[S192] Musée du Louvre: Brutus, premier Consul, de retour en sa maison après avoir condamné ses deux fils. Online source
[S193] Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 83. Online source
[S194] United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Genesis 4. Online source
[S195] Euripides, Orestes, Greek text and French translation. Online source
[S196] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXIII (1912). Online source
[S197] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXIV (1912). Online source
[S198] Assemblée nationale, Sycomore: Jean Julien. Online source
[S199] Max Billard: Les femmes enceintes devant le tribunal révolutionnaire, with transcribed Tribunal documents. Online source
[S200] Ville de Paris: Picpus, le cimetière très privé des nobles guillotinés. Online source
[S201] Musée du Louvre: La Renommée à cheval sur Pégase. Online source
[S202] Musée Carnavalet: Bataille de Fleurus, 8 messidor an II, 26 juin 1794. Online source
[S203] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXV (1912). Online source
[S204] Archives parlementaires: Adoption de l’ensemble du Code pénal, 25 September 1791. Online source
[S205] Sénat: Fouché Joseph, duc d’Otrante. Online source
[S206] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXVI (1912). Online source
[S207] Émile Littré: dragon, sense 8. Online source
[S208] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, first edition: dragon. Online source
[S209] Ville de Paris, Parcours Révolution: Catherine Théot. Online source
[S210] Émile Littré: tarpéienne. Online source
[S211] L’Histoire par l’image: Le 9 thermidor. Online source
[S212] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXVII (1912). Online source
[S213] United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Mark 14. Online source
[S214] Opéra national de Paris: Salle de la rue de Richelieu, ancien Théâtre Montansier. Online source
[S215] Élysée: La Constitution du 24 juin 1793, Declaration article 35. Online source
[S216] Larousse: Maximilien de Robespierre, account of 9 thermidor. Online source
[S217] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXVIII (1912). Online source
[S218] Anatole France, Les dieux ont soif, chapter XXIX (1912). Online source
[S219] Centre des monuments nationaux, Conciergerie: Femmes en révolution, Charlotte Corday. Online source
[S220] National Trust for Scotland: Staffa National Nature Reserve. Online source
[S221] Musica International: Le réveil du peuple, Pierre Gaveaux, 1795. Online source
[S222] Élysée: La Marseillaise de Rouget de Lisle. Online source
[S223] Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, eighth edition: côté. Online source
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Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Sources and Further Reading · Sources and Further Reading · Part 4
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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.