From Wikipedia description of novel by Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels (La Revolte des Anges, 1914) is often considered Anatole France's most profound and ironic novel.

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Loosely based on the Christian understanding of the War in Heaven, it tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu. Arcade realizes that replacing God with another is meaningless unless "in ourselves and in ourselves alone we attack and destroy Ialdabaoth."

"Ialdabaoth", according to France, is God's secret name and means "the child who wanders".

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France had socialist sympathies and an outspoken supporter of the 1917 Russian Revolution. However he also vocally defended the institution of monarchy as more inclined to peace than bourgeois democracy, saying in relation to efforts to end the First World War that "a king of France, yes a king, would have had pity on our poor, exhausted, bloodlet nation. However democracy is without a heart and without entrails. When serving the powers of money, it is pitiless and inhuman."

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