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Anatole France’s “The Gods Will Have Blood” is set in the late era of the French Revolution. The story gives accounts of the attitude and events or the era. There is hunger within the villages and political unrest. Clergy, nobles, and aristocrats are overthrown by people of the Republic and any opposition to the Republic or loyalty to monarchs is punishable by death. It is this Republic ideal that provokes the accusations of conspiracy and mass executions also known as the Reign of Terror. The main character of the story, Évariste Gamelin, is an example of a person who was so influenced by the ideas and events of the French Revolution that he took on a hatred for anyone who was suspected of sympathizing with monarchs. When he was given the job