In another novel, this author created Kraken, who takes Orberosia as a mistress and stages a killing of a dragon.
This author created Évariste Gamelin, a Parisian painter who falls in with Marat and Robespierre, in his fictionalization of the French Revolution. This author penned a novel in which the hermit Paphnuce converts the title character to Christianity; Paphnuce was later named Athanaël in an operatic adaptation by Jules Massenet. In another novel, this author created Kraken, who takes Orberosia as a mistress and stages a killing of a dragon. In that novel, this author wrote of (*) Mael, a missionary whom the devil sent to the North Pole, where he mistook the native inhabitants for humans, thus forcing God to change a flock of birds into people who came to live off of the Breton coast. For 10 points, name this French author of The Gods Are Athirst, Thais, and Penguin Island.
This author created Évariste Gamelin, a Parisian painter who falls in with Marat and Robespierre, in his fictionalization of the French Revolution.
Anatole France [accept François-Anatole Thibault]