First published in 1914, "The Revolt of the Angels" is one of the final works by celebrated French author and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France. Considered by many critics to be his most profound and significant work, it is the story of the angel Arcade who has grown tired of watching over a sinless Bishop. With nothing else to do, Arcade begins to read the books in the Bishop's library and soon rejects God and decides to live as a man instead. The...

"The Gods Are Athirst" (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. It is a fictional story set during the French Revolution. The story of the infernal rise of Évariste Gamelin, a young Parisian painter, involved in the section for his neighbourhood of Pont-Neuf, The Gods Are Athirst describes the dark years of the Reign of Terror in Paris, from Year II to Year...

Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility...

Anatole France's work "Les dieux ont soif" translates to "The Gods Will Have Blood" or "The Gods are Athirst." Both translations of the title accurately depict the nature of this novel set during the French Revolution. Young artist Évariste Gamelin is the right-hand man of Jacobin, Marat, and Robespierre and eventually becomes appointed as a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal during the heinous Reign of Terror. Though Gamelin fully believes in the...

When her true love is abducted by mysterious creatures, a girl must summon the strength to save him From the moment they met as young children, Bee and George have been bound together by a deep love. But when George goes off on a quest to a forbidden lake, home to dangerous water nymphs, it is up to Bee to rescue him. On her adventure she meets Loc, the king of the dwarfs, who proves to be more kind and generous than the humans she knows. Even as...

Extrait: "Malgré la diversité apparente des amusements qui semblent m'attirer, ma vie n'a qu'un objet. Elle est tendue tout entière vers l'accomplissement d'un grand dessein. J'écris l'histoire des Pingouins. J'y travaille assidument, sans me laisser rebuter par des difficultés fréquentes et qui, parfois, semblent insurmontables."

Extrait : "Ce jour-là, Fontanet et moi, tous deux élèves de cinquième sous M. Brard, ayant quitté le collège à quatre heures et demie, au son de la cloche, selon la coutume, nous descendions la rue du Cherche-Midi, suivis de madame Tourtour, attachée à la famille Fontanet, et de Justine, que mon père avait surnommée la Catastrophe parce qu'elle déchaînait ordinairement autour d'elle les fureurs du feu, de l'air et des eaux." À PROPOS...

Extrait : "Évariste Gamelin, peintre, élève de David, membre de la section du Pont-Neuf, précédemment section Henri IV, s'était rendu de bon matin à l'ancienne église des Barnabites, qui depuis trois ans, depuis le 21 mai 1790, servait de siège à l'assemblée générale de la section..."

Extrait : "Telle était la vertu de ces religieux, qu'elle soumettait à son pouvoir jusqu'aux bêtes féroces..."

Extrait : "Au milieu du chemin de la vie... Ce vers, par lequel Dante commence la première cantique de la Divine comédie, me vient à la penséec ce soir, pour la centième fois peut-être. Mais c'est la première fois qu'il me touche. Avec quel intérêt je le repasse en esprit, et comme je le trouve sérieux et plein !" À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature...