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The Gods Are Athirst
Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Lemma.
Sabots are wooden shoes or clogs. The knitter wears them in the city; Tronche’s fill with liquid manure at the inn and appear again as she cuts roses. Their repetition binds clothing to labour and bodily exposure rather than indicating an abstract social class on its own.
Places to read
- Chapter VI, paragraph 22Frenchen sabots: In wooden shoes. Part of the knitter’s visible costume.
- Chapter X, paragraph 47Frenchses sabots: Her clogs. The narrator describes liquid manure reaching Tronche’s bare feet.
- Chapter X, paragraph 71Frenchen sabots et troussée: In clogs with her skirt tucked up. Tronche works from a ladder cutting roses.