Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725−1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevalier's jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
The article states that the Chevalier had distorted or invented events in his memoir to make his life seems more exciting and glamorous than it really was and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that the memoir is pretty accurate overall and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the reading states that the Chevalier claims that he was very wealthy during the time he was living in Switzerland is not true because he borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. The professor opposes this point by saying that the Chevalier was not poor at all. She explains that when he was in Switzerland he spent a lot of money on parties and gambling, however he had few assets in real money. In that way, he need to change their estate to receive cash and, when he waited, he borrowed some money to spend. Thus, he was not a poor person.
Second, the article claims that critics are skeptical about the accuracy of the conversation records between the Chevalier and the writer Voltaire. However, the professor contends that the Chevalier wrote down everything each night after the conversations for many years. Also, the professor explains that witnesses confirmed that The Chevalier used notes from journals on the record.
Third, the reading avers that the Chevalier had received a bribe instead of the memoir's history about his escape from a prison in Italy. Conversely, the lecture refutes this point by stating that other prisoners with more well-connected friends than the Chevalier did not received any bribe. The professor states that old documents showed that the prison's ceiling was repaired after the Chevalier had escaped. In that way, why it had been repaired if not from the hole made by the Chevalier.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 81, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'memoirs'' or 'memoir's'?
Suggestion: memoirs'; memoir's
...ier had received a bribe instead of the memoirs history about his escape from a prison ...
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Line 7, column 273, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'did' requires the base form of the verb: 'receive'
Suggestion: receive
...cted friends than the Chevalier did not received any bribe. The professor states that ol...
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Line 7, column 349, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'prisons'' or 'prison's'?
Suggestion: prisons'; prison's
...ates that old documents showed that the prisons ceiling was repaired after the Chevalie...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, first, however, if, really, second, so, third, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1472.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98983050847 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51385131509 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532203389831 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5367188318 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.142857143 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35714285714 7.06452816374 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233478696168 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801629154103 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585214179622 0.0662205650399 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141532423098 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052883766016 0.0443174109184 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.