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The Gods Are Athirst
Les Dieux ont soif · Complete French–English bilingual edition
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Chapter XIX · Paragraphs 46–50
Edition pages
Printed pages in the supplied Diotimos 2026 bilingual edition.
- French
- Diotimos 2026 p. 388
- English
- Diotimos 2026 p. 389
French
Il haussa les épaules:
"Ma vie est finie, mon enfant. Vivez et soyez heureuse."
Elle lui prit les mains et les mit sur son sein:
"Écoutez-moi, mon ami.... Je ne vous ai vu qu’un jour et pourtant vous ne m’êtes point indifférent. Et si ce que je vais vous dire peut vous rattacher à la vie, croyez-le: je serai pour vous... tout ce que vous voudrez que je sois."
Et ils se donnèrent un baiser sur la bouche à travers la grille.
English
He shrugged:
“My life is over, my child. Live and be happy.”
She took his hands and placed them on her breast:
“Listen, my friend.… I saw you only once, yet I am not indifferent to you. And if what I am about to tell you can bind you to life, believe it: I shall be for you… whatever you wish me to be.”
And they kissed on the mouth through the grille.
Socrates
Reading The Gods Are Athirst · Chapter XIX · Chapter XIX · Paragraphs 46–50
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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.