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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Chapter VII · Paragraph 63
Edition pages
Printed pages in the supplied Diotimos 2026 bilingual edition.
- French
- Diotimos 2026 p. 148
- English
- Diotimos 2026 p. 149
French
Comme, le cœur gros de douleur, de haine et d’amour, il s’en allait rendre un hommage funèbre au martyr de la liberté, une vieille paysanne qui portait la coiffe limousine s’approcha de lui et lui demanda si ce monsieur Marat, qui avait été assassiné, n’était pas monsieur le curé Mara, de Saint-Pierre-de-Queyroix.
English
Socrates
Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Chapter VII · Chapter VII · Paragraph 63
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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.