The death of the monk Ambrosio (The Monk, t4, Favre, 1797) - Patas after Langevin

The monk Ambrosio has managed to isolate himself in the cellars of the convent in Madrid to rape Antonia, his own sister, from whom he has been separated since birth and whom he has passed off as dead thanks to a potion.

Ambrosio, in the original text, rapes Antonia before killing her as soldiers enter the cellars during the insurrection against the convent's nuns. But the Favre edition modifies Lewis's story by removing all reference to the supernatural and making the macabre ending a moral one. Lorenzo arrives in time before Antonia's murder: he kills Ambrosio, who doesn't end up precipitated by the devil from the top of the Sierra Morena mountains.

On the image, Ambrosio can't avoid Lorenzo's sword stroke, which announces to him in a solemn manner, with an alexandrine absent from the original text, the punishment he deserves, while Antonia thanks a non-existent heaven, and soldiers arrive in numbers spreading light on the monk's crimes.