Evariste Gamelin

Evariste Gamelin is a young painter who worships the revolutionaries of the Jacobin cause. He becomes an ardent revolutionary, seeking justice for all. Evariste goes to the meeting place of the general assembly to vote, suggesting those who do not vote should be fined. Evariste returns to his fourth floor studio and bedroom in the Place Dauphine where he lives with his mother. He greets the elderly Citizen Brotteaux and assists him downstairs with his package. Evariste's studio is filled with scenes of gallantry from his days as a student, though he prefers to draw sketches of Liberty, Tyranny and so forth as a citizen of a free people; yet, times are hard for an artist as the French art once widely appreciated throughout Europe now finds no outlet to foreign countries. So, Evariste abandons his masterpieces to please the vulgar. He plans to design a pack...