daughter Eugénie with whom he falls in love. When he decides to propose to her, Eugénie turns him down, she’s not in love with him. She’s already engaged to a man, the one who used to rent the bedroom before him, and whom he replaced, but not in her heart...
Vincent doesn’t understand, doesn’t accept this, he wants to seduce her and insists.
Eugénie’s mother asks him to leave the boarding house forever.
He goes back to Helvoirt much depressed then comes back with his sister who’s looking for a job in London. But he’s not well. Goupil sends him in Paris for two months, hoping that he will recover.
Unfortunately, things get worse and he goes back to London shaken with a mystic crisis. He reads the Bible and feels guilty, he wants to “die to himself”.
That coming back to London was a catastophe and the gallery moves him for good to Paris