Anatole France's novel The Gods are Athirst (Les Dieux ont soif, 1912) tells the story of the painter Evariste Gamelin, who developed into a fanatical Jacobin during the French Revolution at the beginning of the 90's in the 18th century. Filled with a sense of fairness and justice as a young man, he soon became a bloodthirsty judge, sending hundreds of people, including many innocent ones and even close friends, to the guillotine, until he himself became a victim of the historical developments. --- Anatole France (1844-1924), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1921, was one of France's greatest authors. His most successful works besides The Gods are Athirst are the novels The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, 1881), Penguin Island (L'ile des pingouins, 1908) and The Revolt of the Angels (La revolte des anges, 1914).
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Revolutionary Tribunal, Jean Blaise, Pére Longuemare, Rose Thévenin, Hôtel de Ville, Jacques Maubel, Madame de Rochemaure, Place de la Révolution, Père Longuemare, Place de Thionville, Philippe Dubois, Fortuné Trubert, Friend of the People, Committee of Surveillance, Philippe Desmahis, Rue de la Loi, Committee of General Security, Théâtre de la Nation, Palais de Justice, National Guards, Public Prosecutor, Monsieur Brotteaux, Maurice Brotteaux, Chambre Ardente, Les Ilettes Browse Sample Pages:
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