Evariste Gamelin, a young painter a member of the Revolutionary Court, he will resist the exercise of power through the love of the beautiful Elodie? A great writer revives Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, romantic walks in the spring Place Dauphine, desire, violence and fear. The gods are thirsty novel of terror, from his birth until deleted by the Thermidorian reaction, is perhaps the finest novel about the French Revolution.