Montmartre or Pantheon

Again, Christ will represent the sufferer.

This time Maxime del Sarte, who styles himself descendant of great Andrea del Sarto, has fashioned Him from clay in the mold of a cross-bearer. Supporting Him trudge poilus, laborers, lame, halt, blind.

The sculptor hears Parisian officials arguing as to whether He would appear to better advantage on the sunny and sinful slopes of Montmartre or below near the Pantheon, where France's illustrious dead sleep.

Del Sarte is a rabid royalist and whenever the Royalists engage the police of the Third Republic, he may be seen in the front line savagely wielding a cane with his one good arm. When he was a student at the Sorbonne he led a public spanking of his history professor (who had disparaged Joan of Arc in a lecture), for which he was imprisoned, but later released by onetime Minister of the Interior Clemenceau on account of "his admirable work".