Géricault -- Ingres -- Delacroix -- Rousseau's Social contract -- The rhetoric of sensations -- The observer obliviated -- Propagandist of the 'Pauvre moi' -- The master of the attributions -- The eye of innocence -- The last of the old masters -- Incantation to inertia -- Ploughing a provincial furrow -- The willing victim -- Descent into the untestable -- Sick servants of the quill -- In pursuit of happiness -- Corinne and her 'Coups de foudre' -- A nun of art -- On high heels of Vesuvius -- Scarsdale romance -- Women against men -- God's great wager.