Chapter 3 Summary

When Evariste visits the printing shop of Citizen Jean Blaise that afternoon to try to sell his idea of Revolutionary playing cards, he fixes his eyes on the bedroom window of Elodie, Blaise's daughter. He finds Elodie inside, and though he has not declared his love, his gaze alerts Elodie to his feelings which she reciprocates unbeknownst to Evariste. Since he dislikes her embroidery design, she asks him to draw a pattern for her, insisting her pattern does not please her since it does not please him. Evariste's discussion of Antique beauty and his hatred of Fragonard is interrupted by the arrival of Citizen Blaise, but Blaise is unimpressed by Evariste's card design as he has already seen three packs of Revolutionary playing cards. He suggests Evariste should draw pretty girls as the French are tired of the Revolution but never tire of...