Maurice Brotteaux is sentenced to death in a mass trial by his former friend and ardent revolutionary Evariste Gamelin in a novel by this author.
In a novel by this author, a former nobleman is accused of spreading propaganda with his Punch and Judy dolls. The main character of a novel by this writer tries to sell playing cards that have the face cards replaced by political concepts, and had included a self-portrait in a painting of Orestes and Electra. Johannes Talpa chronicles the early history of a (*) locale created by this man, in which the mother of Draco the Great pretends to be a virgin to help kill a fake dragon. Maurice Brotteaux is sentenced to death in a mass trial by his former friend and ardent revolutionary Evariste Gamelin in a novel by this author. He wrote a sweeping history of a group of animals baptized by the monk Mael, after which God turns them all into humans. For 10 points, name this author of The Gods Are Athirst and Penguin Island.
In a novel by this author, a former nobleman is accused of spreading propaganda with his Punch and Judy dolls.
Anatole France [or Jacques-Anatole-FranÃ§oi Thibault]