They were not entirely7 strangers to each other, having met more than once in David's studio, in a box at the Assembly Hall, at the Jacobins, at Venua's restaurant. On these occasions she had been struck by his good looks and youth and interesting air.
Wearing a hat beribboned like a fairing and plumed8 like the head-piece of a Representative on mission, the citoyenne Rochemaure was wigged9, painted, patched and scented10. But her complexion11 was young and fresh behind all these disguises; these extravagant12 artificialities of fashion only betokened13 a frantic14 haste to enjoy life and the feverishness15 of these dreadful days when the morrow was so uncertain. Her corsage, with wide facings and enormous basques and all ablaze16 with huge steel buttons, was blood-red, and it was hard to tell, so aristocratic and so revolutionary at one and the same time was her array, whether it was the colours of the victims or of the headsman that she sported. A young officer, a dragoon, accompanied her.
Dandling her long cane17 by its handle of mother-o'-pearl, a tall, fine woman, of generous proportions and ample bosom18, she made the circuit of the studio, and putting up to her grey eyes her double quizzing-glasses of gold, examined the painter's canvases with many smiles and exclamations19 of delight, admiring the handsome artist and flattering him in hopes of a return in kind.
"What," asked the citoyenne, "is that picture—it is so nobly conceived, so touching20—of a gentle, beautiful woman standing21 by a young man lying sick?"
Gamelin told her it was meant to represent Orestes tended by his sister Electra, and that, had he been able to finish it, it might perhaps have been the least unsatisfactory of his works.
"The subject," he went on to say, "is taken from the Orestes of Euripides. I had read, in a translation of this tragedy made years ago, a scene that filled me with admiration,—the one where the young Electra, raising her brother on his bed of pain, wipes away the froth that gathers on his lips, puts aside the locks that blind his eyes and beseeches22 the brother she loves to hearken to what she will tell him while the Furies are at peace for the moment.... As I read and re-read this translation, I seemed to be aware of a kind of fog that shrouded23 the forms of Greek perfection, a fog I could not drive away. I pictured the original text to myself as more nervous and pitched in a different accent. Feeling a keen desire to get a precise idea of the thing, I went to Monsieur Gail, who was the Professor of Greek at the Collège de France (this was in '91), and begged him to expound24 the scene to me word by word. He did what I asked, and I then saw that the Ancients are much more simple and homely25 than people think. Thus, for instance, Electra says to Orestes: 'Dear brother, what joy it gave me to see thee sleep! Shall I help thee to rise?' And Orestes answers: 'Yes, help me, take me in thy arms, and wipe away the spume that still clings about my mouth and eyes. Put thy bosom against mine and part from my brow my tangled26 hair, for it blinds my eyes....' My mind still full of this poetry, so young and vivid, ringing with these simple, strong phrases, I sketched27 the picture you see there, citoyenne."
The painter, who, as a rule, spoke28 so sparingly of his works, waxed eloquent29 on the subject of this one. At an encouraging gesture from the citoyenne Rochemaure, who lifted her quizzing-glasses in token of attention, he continued:
"Hennequin has depicted30 the madness of Orestes in masterly fashion. But Orestes appeals to us still more poignantly31 in his sorrow than when he is distraught. What a fate was his! It was filial piety32, obedience33 to a sacred obligation, drove him to commit his dreadful deed,—a sin the gods cannot but pardon, but which men will never condone34. To avenge35 outraged36 justice, he has repudiated37 Nature, has made himself a monster, has torn out his own heart. But his spirit remains39 unbroken under the weight of his horrible, yet innocent crime.... That is what I would fain have exhibited in my group of brother and sister." He stepped up to the canvas and looked at it not without satisfaction.
"Parts of the picture," he said, "are pretty nearly finished; the head and arm of Orestes, for instance."
"It is an admirable composition.... And Orestes reminds me of you, citoyen Gamelin."
"You think he is like me?" exclaimed the painter, with a grave smile.
She took the chair Gamelin offered her. The young dragoon stood beside her, his hand on the back of the chair on which she sat. Which showed plainly that the Revolution was an accomplished40 fact, for under the ancien régime, no man would ever, in company, have touched so much as with the tip of a finger, the seat occupied by a lady. In those days a gentleman was trained and broken in to the laws of politeness, sometimes pretty hard laws, and taught to understand that a scrupulous41 self-restraint in public places gives a peculiar42 zest43 to the sweet familiarity of the boudoir, and that to lose your respectful awe44 of a woman, you must first have that feeling.
Louise Masché de Rochemaure, daughter of a Lieutenant45 of the King's Hunt, widow of a Procureur and, for twenty years, the faithful mistress of the financier Brotteaux des Ilettes, had fallen in with the new ideas. She was to be seen, in July, 1790, digging the soil of the Champ de Mars. Her strong inclination46 to side with the powers that be had carried her readily enough along a political path that started with the Feuillants and led by way of the Girondins to end on the summit of the Mountain, while at the same time a spirit of compromise, a passion for conversion47 and a certain aptitude48 for intrigue49 still attached her to the aristocratic and anti-revolutionary party. She was to be met everywhere,—at coffee houses and theatres, fashionable restaurants, gaming-saloons, drawing-rooms, newspaper offices and ante-chambers of Committees. The Revolution yielded her a hundred satisfactions,—novelty and amusement, smiles and pleasures, business ventures and profitable speculations50. Combining political with amorous52 intrigue, playing the harp53, drawing landscapes, singing ballads54, dancing Greek dances, giving supper parties, entertaining pretty women, such as the Comtesse de Beaufort and the actress Mademoiselle Descoings, presiding all night long over a trente-et-un or biribi table and an adept55 at rouge56 et noir, she still found time to be charitable to her friends. Inquisitive57 and interfering58, giddy-pated and frivolous59, she understood men but knew nothing of the masses; as indifferent to the creed60 she professed61 as to the opinions she felt bound to repudiate38, understanding nothing whatever of all that was happening in the country, she was enterprising, intrepid62, and full of audacity63 from sheer ignorance of danger and an unbounded confidence in the efficacy of her charms.
The soldier who escorted her was in the heyday64 of youth. A brazen65 helmet decorated with a panther skin and the crest66 set off with a crimson67 cock's-comb shaded his fresh young face and displayed a long and terrific mane that swept his back. His red jacket was cut short and square, barely reaching to the waist, the better to show off his elegant figure. In his girdle he carried an enormous sabre, the hilt of which was a glittering eagle's beak68. A pair of flapped breeches of sky blue moulded the fine muscles of his legs and was braided in rich arabesques69 of a darker blue on the thighs70. He might have been a dancer dressed for some warlike and dashing r?le, in Achilles at Scyros or Alexander's Wedding-feast, in a costume designed by a pupil of David with the one idea of accentuating71 every line of the shape.
Gamelin had a vague recollection of having seen him before. He was, in fact, the same young soldier he had come upon a fortnight previously72 haranguing73 the people from the arcades74 of the Théatre de la Nation.
The citoyenne Rochemaure introduced him by name:
"The citoyen Henry, Member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Section of the Rights of Man."
She had him always at her heels,—a mirror of gallantry and a living and walking guarantee of patriotism76.
The citoyenne complimented Gamelin on his talents and asked him if he would be willing to design a card for a protégée of hers, a fashionable milliner. He would, of course, choose an appropriate motif,—a woman trying on a scarf before a cheval glass, for instance, or a young workwoman carrying a band-box on her arm.
She had heard several artists mentioned as competent to execute a little matter of the sort,—Fragonard fils, young Ducis, as well as a certain Prudhomme; but she would rather apply to the citoyen évariste Gamelin. However, she made no definite proposal on this head and it was evident she had mentioned the commission merely by way of starting the conversation. In truth she had come for something quite different. She wanted the citoyen Gamelin to do her a favour; knowing he was a friend of the citoyen Marat, she had come to ask him to introduce her to the Friend of the People, with whom she desired an interview.
Gamelin replied that he was too insignificant77 an individual to present her to Marat, besides which, she had no need of anyone to be her sponsor; Marat, albeit78 overwhelmed with business, was not the inaccessible79 person he was said to be,—and, added Gamelin:
"He will receive you, citoyenne, if you are in distress80; his great heart makes him compassionate81 to all who suffer. He will likewise receive you if you have any revelation to make concerning the public weal; he has vowed82 his days to the unmasking of traitors83."
The citoyenne Rochemaure answered that she would be happy to greet in Marat an illustrious citizen, who had rendered great services to his country, who was capable of rendering85 greater still, and that she was anxious to bring the legislator in question into relation with friends of hers of good repute and good will, philanthropists favoured by fortune and competent to provide him with new means of satisfying his ardent86 affection for humanity.
"It is very desirable," she concluded, "to make the rich co-operate in securing public prosperity."
In actual fact, the citoyenne had promised the banker Morhardt to arrange a dinner where he and Marat should meet.
Morhardt, a Swiss like the Friend of the People, had entered into a combination with several deputies of the Convention, Julien (of Toulouse), Delaunay (of Angers) and the ex-Capuchin Chabot, to speculate in the shares of the Compagnie des Indes. The game was very simple,—to bring down the price of these shares to 650 livres by proposing motions pointing in the direction of confiscation87, in order to buy up the greatest possible number at this figure and then push them up to 4,000 or 5,000 livres by dint of proposals of a reassuring88 nature. But for Chabot, Julien, Delaunay, their little ways were too notorious, while suspicions were rife89 of Lacroix, Fabre d'églantine, and even Danton. The arch-speculator, the Baron90 de Batz, was looking for new confederates in the Convention and had advised Morhardt to sound Marat.
This idea of the anti-revolutionary speculators was not so extravagant as might have been supposed at the first blush. It was always the way of these gentry91 to form alliance with those in power at the moment, and by virtue92 of his popularity, his pen, his character, Marat was a power to be reckoned with. The Girondists were near shipwreck93; the Dantonists, battered94 by the hurricane, had lost their hold on the helm. Robespierre, the idol95 of the people, was a man jealous of his scrupulous honesty, full of suspicion, impossible to approach. The great thing was to get round Marat, to secure his good will against the day when he should be dictator—and everything pointed96 to this consummation,—his popularity, his ambition, his eagerness to recommend heroic measures. And it might be, after all, Marat would re-establish order, the finances, the prosperity of the country. More than once he had risen in revolt against the zealots who were for outbidding him in fanaticism97; for some time past he had been denouncing the demagogues as vehemently98 as the moderates. After inciting99 the people to sack the "cornerers'" shops and hang them over their own counters, he was now exhorting100 the citizens to be calm and prudent101. He was growing into an administrator102.
In spite of certain rumours103 disseminated104 against him as against all the other chiefs of the Revolution, these pirates of the money-market did not believe he could be corrupted105, but they did know him to be vain and credulous106, and they hoped to win him over by flattery and still more by a condescending107 friendliness108 which they looked upon as the most seductive form of flattery from men like themselves. They counted, thanks to him, on blowing hot and cold on all the securities they might wish to buy and sell, and making him serve their interests while supposing himself to be acting109 solely110 for the public good.
Great as a go-between, albeit she was still of an age for amours on her own account, the citoyenne Rochemaure had made it her mission to bring together the legislator-journalist and the banker, and in her extravagant imagination she already saw the man of the underworld, the man whose hands were yet red with the blood of the September massacres112, a partner in the game of the financiers whose agent she was; she pictured him drawn113 by his very warmth of feeling and unsophisticated candour into the whirlpool of speculation51, a recruit to the c?terie she loved of "corner" makers114, contractors116, foreign emissaries, gamblers, and women of gallantry.
She insisted on the citoyen Gamelin taking her to see the Friend of the People, who lived quite near, in the Rue117 des Cordeliers, near the church. After some little show of reluctance118, the painter acceded119 to the citoyenne's wishes.
The dragoon Henry was invited to join them in the visit, but declined, declaring he meant to keep his liberty of action, even towards the citoyen Marat, who, he felt no doubt, had rendered services to the Republic, but was weakening nowadays; had he not, in his news sheet, counselled resignation as the proper thing for the people of Paris?
And the young man, in a sweet voice, broken by long-drawn sighs, deplored120 the fate of the Republic, betrayed by the men in whom she had put her trust,—Danton rejecting the notion of a tax on the rich, Robespierre opposing the permanence of the Sections, Marat, whose pusillanimous121 counsels were paralyzing the enthusiasm of the citizens.
"Ah!" he cried, "how feeble such men appear beside Leclerc and Jacques Roux!... Roux! Leclerc! ye are the true friends of the people!"
Gamelin did not hear these remarks, which would have angered him; he had gone into the next room to don his blue coat.
"You may well be proud of your son," observed the citoyenne Rochemaure, addressing the citoyenne Gamelin. "He is a great man; talent and character both make him so."
In answer, the widow Gamelin gave a good account of her son, yet without making much boast of him before a lady of high station, for she had been taught in her childhood that the first duty of the lowly is humility122 towards the great. She was of a complaining bent123, having indeed only too good cause and finding in such jeremiads a salve for her griefs. She was garrulous124 in her revelations of all the hardships she had to bear to any whom she supposed in a position to relieve them, and Madame de Rochemaure seemed to belong to that class. She made the most, therefore, of this favourable126 opportunity and told a long and breathless story of their distresses,—how mother and son were both dying of slow starvation. Pictures could not be sold any more; the Revolution had killed business dead. Victuals127 were scarce and too dear for words....
The good dame125 poured out her lamentations with all the loose-lipped volubility her halting tongue was capable of, so as to get them all finished by the time her son, whose pride would not brook128 such whining129, should reappear. She was bent on attaining130 her object in the shortest possible time,—that of touching a lady whom she deemed rich and influential131, and enlisting132 her sympathy in her boy's future. She felt sure that évariste's good looks were an asset on her side to move the heart of a well-born lady. And so they were; the citoyenne Rochemaure proved tender-hearted and was melted to think of évariste's and his mother's sufferings. She made plans to alleviate133 them; she had rich men amongst her friends and would get them to buy the artist's pictures.
"The truth is," she added, with a smile, "there is still money in France, but it keeps in hiding."
Better still, now Art was ruined, she would obtain évariste a post in Morhardt's bank or with the Brothers Perregaux, or a place as clerk in the office of an army contractor115.
Then she reflected that this was not what a man of his character needed; and, after a moment's thought, she nodded in sign that she had hit the nail on the head:
"There are still several jurymen left to be appointed on the Revolutionary Tribunal. Juryman, magistrate134, that is the thing to suit your son. I have friendly relations with the Committee of Public Safety. I know Robespierre the elder personally; his brother frequently sups at my house. I will speak to them. I will get a word said to Montané, Dumas, Fouquier."
The citoyenne Gamelin, bursting with excitement and gratitude135, put a finger to her lip; évariste was coming back into the studio.
He escorted the citoyenne Rochemaure down the gloomy staircase, the steps of which, whether of wood or tiled, were coated with an ancient layer of dirt.
On the Pont-Neuf, where the sun, now near its setting, threw a lengthened136 shadow from the pedestal that had borne the Bronze Horse and was now gay with the National colours, a crowd of men and women of the people gathered in little groups were listening to some tale that was being told them. Consternation137 reigned138 and a heavy silence, broken at intervals139 by groans140 and fierce cries. Many were making off at a rapid pace in the direction of the Rue de Thionville, erstwhile Rue Dauphine; Gamelin joined one of these groups and heard the news—that Marat had just been assassinated141.
Little by little the tidings were confirmed and particulars became known; he had been murdered in his bath by a woman who had come expressly from Caen to commit the crime.
Some thought she had escaped; but the majority declared she had been arrested.
There they stood like sheep without a shepherd, thinking sadly:
"Marat, the tender-hearted, the humane142, Marat our benefactor143, is no longer there to guide us, Marat who was never deceived, who saw through every subterfuge144 and never feared to reveal the truth!... What can we do, what is to become of us? We have lost our adviser145, our champion, our friend." They knew very well whence the blow had come, and who had directed the woman's arm. They groaned146 aloud:
"Marat has been struck down by the same criminal hands that are bent on our extermination147. His death is the signal for the slaughter148 of all good patriots149."
Different reports were current, as to the circumstances of the tragic150 event and the last words of the victim; endless questions were asked concerning the assassin, all that anyone knew was that it was a young woman sent by those traitors, the federalists. Baring teeth and nails, the citoyennes devoted151 the culprit to condign152 punishment; deeming the guillotine too merciful a death, they demanded this monster of iniquity153 should be scourged154, broken on the wheel, torn limb from limb, and racked their brains to invent new tortures.
An armed body of National Guards was haling to the Section headquarters a man of determined155 mien156. His clothes were in tatters, and streams of blood trickled157 down his white face. He had been overheard saying that Marat had earned his fate by his constant incitements to pillage158 and massacre111, and it was only with great difficulty that the Guards had saved him from the fury of the populace. A hundred fingers pointed him out as the accomplice159 of the assassin, and threats of death followed him as he was led away.
Gamelin was stunned160 by the blow. A few hot tears blistered161 his burning eyes. With the grief he felt as a disciple162 mingled163 solicitude164 for the popular idol, and these combined feelings tore at his heart-strings. He thought to himself:
"After Le Peltier, after Bourdon, Marat!... I foresee the fate of the patriots; massacred on the Champ de Mars, at Nancy, at Paris, they will perish one and all." And he thought of Wimpfen, the traitor84, who only a while before was marching on Paris, and who, had he not been stopped at Vernon, by the gallant75 patriots, would have devoted the heroic city to fire and slaughter.
And how many perils165 still remained, how many criminal designs, how many treasonable plots, which only Marat's perspicacity166 and vigilance could unravel167 and foil! Now he was dead, who was there to denounce Custine loitering in idleness in the Camp of C?sar and refusing to relieve Valenciennes, Biron tarrying inactive in the Lower Vendée letting Saumur be taken and Nantes blockaded, Dillon betraying the Fatherland in the Argonne?...
"Marat is dead; the aristocrats169 have killed him!"
As he was on his way, his heart bursting with grief and hate and love, to pay a last mark of respect to the martyr170 of liberty, an old countrywoman, wearing the coif of the Limousin peasantry, accosted171 him to ask if the Monsieur Marat who had been murdered was not Monsieur le Curé Mara, of Saint-Pierre-de-Queyroix.
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