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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Lemma.
A long official robe associated here with magistrates and solemn judicial authority. Widow Gamelin’s childhood admiration of robe and simarre feeds her veneration of her now-appointed son even though the text has specified that jurors wear ordinary clothes. The remembered costume has symbolic force beyond the exact dress of his new office.
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- Chapter IX, paragraph 37Frenchla robe et la simarre: The gown and magistrate’s robes. Her reverence links old institutions to the Revolutionary Tribunal.