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.
The reading states the inaccuracy of the memoir written by Chevalier and provides three reasons to support this. However, the lecture refutes all of the reasons stated in the passage.
First, the reading uses the example of the loan, Chevalier took in Switzerland in order to counter the point stated in the memoir that he enjoyed a wealthy lifestyle. The professor from the lecture refutes this by stating that since, Chevalier had properties in Switzerland, it took time for him to convert his assets to money. So, according to the professor, Chevalier might have borrowed money from a local merchant in order to fulfill his needs until his assets are converted to cash.
Second, the article claims that critics believed that no memoir can accurately capture the conversations that took place way back in the past and hence, Chevalier's account of his conversation with Votaire might be inaccurate. The professor refutes this pointing out that, Chevalier noted down all of his conversations with Voltaire later that night and hence, referred to these notes while writing the memoir.
Third, the critics in the article display skepticism towards the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from prison. According to them, it is more likely that the jailers were bribed it free him as he had powerful and influential friends. However, the professor states that there were many other prisoners who had much powerful acquaintances than Chevalier and when they could not escape by bribing the jailers, then it is highly unlikely that Chevalier might have escaped from prison by corrupting the jailers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 143, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...port this. However, the lecture refutes all of the reasons stated in the passage. First, ...
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Line 4, column 189, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'frees'?
Suggestion: frees
... likely that the jailers were bribed it free him as he had powerful and influential ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, second, so, then, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => 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: 1342.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16153846154 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60990375936 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557692307692 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 405.9 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.6815948047 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.2 110.228320801 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 21.698381199 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209748559809 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886261338986 0.0996497079465 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0443719979805 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122814035578 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0412896630477 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => 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.