Early on on this participating historic drama, a marquis (performed by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) presents a peddler a carriage journey on a distant nation highway. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights movement illness to ship his gross sales pitch: “I've right here just a few objects of marvel, pious photos, pamphlets in opposition to males of the material, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy playing cards, quills, writing paper…”
