Les Dieux Ont Soif
by Anatole France
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition hardcover (Calmann-Levy, editeurs, 1912); 1/4 leather binding, marbled boards, feathered end papers; French language text; not numbered edition; no dust jacket; no prior owner marks; some age tone; short tear to front blank page fore-edge; fraying to end of bound in ribbon bookmark; some dust to gilt top text block edge; tight bind; cover has some sun fade along spine, rub wear along binding joints and at corners; ebbib
Synopsis
evariste Gamelin, peintre, eleve de David, membre de la section du pont-neuf, precedemment section Henri Iv, s'etait rendu de bon matin a l'ancienne eglise des Barnabites, qui depuis trois ans, depuis le 21 mai 1790, servait de siege a l'assemblee generale de la section. Cette eglise s'elevait sur une place etroite et sombre, pres de la grille du palais. Sur la facade, composee de deux ordres classiques, ornee de consoles renversees et de pots a feu, attristee par le temps, offensee par les hommes, les emblemes religieux avaient ete marteles et l'on avait inscrit en lettres noires au-dessus de la porte la devise republicaine : " liberte, egalite, fraternite ou la mort. " evariste Gamelin penetra dans la nef : les voutes, qui avaient entendu les clercs de la congregation de Saint-paul chanter en rochet les offices divins, voyaient maintenant les patriotes en bonnet rouge assembles pour elire les magistrats municipaux et deliberer sur les affaires de la section. Les saints avaient ete tires de leurs niches et remplaces par les bustes de Brutus, de Jean-jacques et de Le Peltier. La table des droits de l'homme se dressait sur l'autel depouille.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32042
- Title
- Les Dieux Ont Soif
- Author
- Anatole France
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Calmann-Levy
- Date Published
- 1912
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled boards
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