Évariste Gamelin is a poor, earnest painter in Paris in 1793, a pupil of David and a devoted member of his revolutionary section. Appointed a juror of the Revolutionary Tribunal, he brings his pure ideals to the work of judging suspects, while around him his mother, his beloved Élodie and an old ex-financier try to live ordinary lives under the Terror.
Anatole France’s most powerful novel, an unsparing study of how virtue turns into fanaticism. Download the free EPUB.