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 Chevaliers 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.
According to the passage, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir that the Chevalier de Seingalt wrote when he was at the end of his life. The professor explained in the lecture that some points, the critics made, are not convincing. The professor expressed no memoir is completely true, but the chevalier's memoir is pretty accurate and is based on a reliable source for some reason below.
First, Some critics have doubts that the Chevalier was wealthy because he borrowed money from a Swiss merchant. The professor explained that borrowing money does not mean the Chevalier was poor, because spending money for parties and gambling was very common in Switzerland, and if the Chevalier ran out of money, he had to borrow money until he payback.
Second, critics have doubts about the accuracy of the conversation between the Chevalier and Voltaire, because he wrote about the conversations many years after them. The professor illustrated that the Chevalier wrote anything he remembered about the conversations right after them, so when he wanted to write his memoir he referred to them.
Third, about escaping from the prison in Venice, the professor pointed out that other prisoners at that prison had more friend that the Chevalier, but they could not escape so it is unlikely the Chevalier escaped by bribery also after the Chevalier escaped they repaired the cell that he was in there, and if he was not damaged, why should they repair it?
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 322, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'chevaliers'' or 'chevalier's'?
Suggestion: chevaliers'; chevalier's
...d no memoir is completely true, but the chevaliers memoir is pretty accurate and is based ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1228.0 1373.03311258 89% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9918699187 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54850493188 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 379.8 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 21.2450331126 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.2350309121 49.2860985944 157% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.5 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.75 21.698381199 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248631984494 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123227989641 0.0996497079465 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0945584386975 0.0662205650399 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152816834729 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0698295887443 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 53.8541721854 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.498013245 133% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 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.