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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Chapter XVII · Paragraphs 47–48
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- French
- Diotimos 2026 p. 346
- English
- Diotimos 2026 p. 347
French
Le citoyen Delourmel la repoussa et fit signe aux grenadiers d’avancer. Alors Athénaïs vomit les plus sales injures, les invectives les plus obscènes sur les magistrats et les grenadiers, qui croyaient sentir se vider sur leurs têtes toutes les cuvettes du Palais-Royal et de la rue Fromenteau. Puis, d’une voix qui remplit la place de Thionville tout entière et fit frémir la foule des curieux, elle cria:
"Vive le roi! vive le roi!"
English
Citizen Delourmel pushed her aside and signalled the grenadiers to move on. Then Athénaïs spewed the foulest abuse and the most obscene invective upon the magistrates and grenadiers, who felt as though all the chamber pots of the Palais-Royal and the Rue Fromenteau were being emptied over their heads. Then, in a voice that filled the whole Place de Thionville and sent a shiver through the crowd of onlookers, she cried:
“Long live the king! Long live the king!”
Socrates
Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Chapter XVII · Chapter XVII · Paragraphs 47–48
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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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