He's a Robert Macaire. A bluff, free-living, unblushing
libertine, who commits the most horrible crimes without stint or
compunction. It is a character in M. Daumier's drama of L'Auberge
des Adrets. His accomplice is Bertrand, a simpleton and villain. (See Macaire.)
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