Chapter 7 & Chapter 8 Summary

In Chapter 7, Citizeness Rochemaure, accompanied by a young dragoon Henry who Evariste recognizes as the man haranguing the crowd near the Theatre de la Nacion, enters as Evariste and his mother eat their midday meal. She is struck by Evariste's good looks and youth and asks about his paintings. Citizeness Rochemaure embraces the new ideas of the Revolution, and she offers Evariste a commission before asking the favor of an introduction to Marat. While Evariste dresses to visit Marat, Citizeness Gamelin laments their poverty and praises her son to Citizeness Rochemaure who promises to get her rich friends to buy his paintings and to arrange for Evariste to be appointed magistrate to sit on the Revolutionary Tribunal. As Evariste leads Citizeness Rochemaure toward Rue de Thionville, he is stupefied with grief when he learns Marat has just been assassinated by the...