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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Lemma.
A kind of sausage, rendered cervelats in the supplied translation. It occurs within a concrete list of food offered at the festival fair. The narrator introduces the abundance as a one-day achievement in a starving city, so the feast should not be mistaken for evidence that the city’s food shortage has ended. Buying the Marat ring follows within this same paragraph: ordinary provisions and political objects share a market.
Places to read
- Chapter VIII, paragraph 12Frenchdes saucissons, des cervelas, des andouilles: dried sausages, cervelats, tripe sausages. The translation distinguishes three items rather than rendering all simply as sausages.