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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Chapter X · Paragraph 71
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Printed pages in the supplied Diotimos 2026 bilingual edition.
- French
- Diotimos 2026 p. 216
- English
- Diotimos 2026 p. 217
French
Il offrit des fleurs aux citoyennes. Par son ordre, la Tronche, sur une échelle, en sabots et troussée, montrant au jour ses mollets crasseux et resplendissants, coupait infatigablement des roses aux rosiers grimpants qui couvraient la muraille. De ses larges mains les roses tombaient en pluie, en torrents, en avalanche, dans les jupes tendues d’Élodie, de Julienne et de la Thévenin. La berline en fut pleine. Tous, rentrant à la nuit, en apportèrent chez eux des brassées, et leur sommeil et leur réveil en fut tout parfumé.
English
He offered the women flowers. At his command Tronche, standing on a ladder in her clogs, her skirt tucked up, her filthy, gleaming calves exposed to daylight, tirelessly cut roses from the climbing bushes that covered the wall. From her broad hands the roses fell in rain, in torrents, in an avalanche, into the outspread skirts of Élodie, Julienne and Thévenin. They filled the carriage. Returning after dark, each took armfuls home, and their sleep and their waking were filled with the scent.
Socrates
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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.
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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.