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, some critics have raised doubts about the memoir and they claim that to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous Chevalier have distorted or invented many events. However, the professor explains that, no memoir can be totally correct, but still Chevalier's memoir is pretty accurate and refutes each of the author's reasons.
First, the author claims that Chevalier borrowed money from a Swiss merchant to spend a great deal of money there on parties and gambling and he was not wealthy. The professor refutes this point by saying that, Chevalier was wealthy. She states that, Chevalier sold his assets for money and it took days for money to reach towards him.
Second, the article posits that critics doubt about the accuracy of conversation between Chevalier and the writer of the memoir, Voltaire. They say that, memoir cannot capture these conversations accurately, because it was written long time after the conversations occured. However, the professor says that the conversations are real. She states that, the writer wrote all the conversations he had with Chevalier during night and he kept them. Also, witnesses confirm that the writer consulted this notes and journals while writing the memoir.
Third, the reading says that critics have questioned the memoirs account of the Chevalier's escape from the prison in Venice, Italy and they claim that Chevalier bribed the prisoners to escape. The professor opposes this point by saying that, Chevalier did not bribe the prisoners because there were other persons in the prison who were not able to escape from the prison by bribing even though they were powerful than Chevalier. We also learn that, the ceiling was prepared short time after Chevalier escaped from the prison.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, still, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1494.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20557491289 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39274663014 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550522648084 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 419.366225166 105% => 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: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7163552197 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.923076923 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0769230769 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76923076923 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219718013795 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865329737339 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0395101307197 0.0662205650399 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140646285653 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.035849381701 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => 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.