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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Paired lemmas.
Chaire is the former church pulpit; tribune is its current function as a speaker’s platform. Beauvisage occupies the converted structure beneath a red cap. The paired nouns register the transformation of an inherited religious interior into a political speaking space without pretending that a new building has been created.
Places to read
- Chapter IX, paragraph 22Frenchla chaire devenue la tribune: The pulpit that had become the platform. The red cap marks its changed public authority.