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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Chapter XVIII · Paragraphs 82–85
Edition pages
Printed pages in the supplied Diotimos 2026 bilingual edition.
- French
- Diotimos 2026 p. 366
- English
- Diotimos 2026 p. 367
French
— Ma mère, écoutez-moi: si je savais que ma sœur Julie est dans cette chambre... (et il montra du doigt la porte close), j’irais tout de suite la dénoncer au Comité de vigilance de la section."
La pauvre mère, blanche comme sa coiffe, laissa tomber son tricot de ses mains tremblantes et soupira, d’une voix plus faible que le plus faible murmure:
"Je ne voulais pas le croire, mais je le vois bien: c’est un monstre...."
Aussi pâle qu’elle, l’écume aux lèvres, Évariste s’enfuit et courut chercher auprès d’Élodie l’oubli, le sommeil, l’avant-goût délicieux du néant.
English
“Mother, listen to me: if I knew my sister Julie was in that room…”—and he pointed to the closed door—“I would go straight to the section’s Vigilance Committee and denounce her.”
The poor mother, white as her cap, let her knitting fall from her trembling hands and sighed in a voice fainter than the faintest murmur:
“I would not believe it, but now I see: he is a monster.…”
As pale as she was, foaming at the lips, Évariste fled and ran to Élodie to seek forgetfulness, sleep, the delicious foretaste of nothingness.
Socrates
Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Chapter XVIII · Chapter XVIII · Paragraphs 82–85
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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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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.