Khudayān Tishnah'and: Persiska (Farsi) 1401

The gods are thirsty Story of the infernal rise of Evariste Gamelin, a young Parisian painter, engaged in the section of his Pont-Neuf district, The gods are thirsty describes the dark years of the Terror in Paris, between years II and III. Fiercely Jacobin, loyal among the followers of Marat and Robespierre, Evariste Gamelin will end up being appointed juror to the revolutionary tribunal. The long and implacable succession of increasingly expeditious daily trials (starting with the law of Prairial in particular) leads this idealist into a madness which will cut him off from his loved ones and precipitate his own fall following his idol Robespierre, to the day after 9 Thermidor. His love with Elodie, the daughter of Jean Blaise, his print dealer, will accentuate the paradoxical aspect of the rise of cruelty inspired by political ideas that are a priori generous in this mediocre boy who has everything disposed to kindness if not to weakness. Justifying this guillotine dance by the fight against the plot aimed at destroying the gains of the Revolution, in the middle of the revolutionary turmoil which crosses Paris, always eager for justice, Gamelin ends up betraying his own principles by voting for the death of the formerly Jacques Maubel, whom he takes for his rival. Elodie, who before Evariste, gave in to a very pretty little prosecutor's clerk (who became the dragon Henry, a revolutionary through opportunism, another character in the novel), told him that she had been seduced by a young aristocrat, and on simple presumptions, Gamelin convinces himself that it is Maubel. He ended up being placed himself on the platform that he had so many times seen loaded with accused, where so many famous or obscure victims and guillotine victims had sat in turn. He dies amid the insults of the people, regretting having been too weak... The character of Maurice Brotteaux is very interesting. Without being reactionary, this former nobleman is well aware of the problems the Revolution was going through during this period and finds these accusations unjustified. We can think that this character embodies the author's point of view.