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 lecturer explains why that the the Chevalier de Seingalt memoir is an accurate and a reliable ancient source, not as the reading claim.
First of all, the professor starts his arguments by saying that it is true that the Chevalier had lent money, but that was the common norm among rich people who lived at that time. Indeed, because in order for them to gamble, they have to sell their assists, so while the Chevalier was waiting, he borrowed money from others and return it to them after receiving his money from selling his property. This directly refutes the point which states that the the Chevalier was not loaded or wealthy.
Second of all, the speaker explains why the conversation details between the the Chevalier and Voltaire are accurate. He says that each night the Chevalier used to write down everything once he got home. Furthermore, people who lived with him witnessed that he consulted experts before writing the memoir. Again, the rebuts the point from the reading passage that even if the Chevalier wanted to write the conversation from a-z, he would not have been able to recall them.
Finally, the speaker wraps up his argument by justifying that the Chevalier could have been capable of escaping the jail. Indeed, many powerful prisoners at that time failed to briber officers to help them get away. Also, evidence shows that soon after the Chevalier escape, the Chevalier jailers had to repair the celling. This refutes the claim that if the Chevalier wanted to escape, he could not have done that.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, if, second, so, while, first of all, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1281.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 261.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90804597701 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.310430604 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574712643678 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 381.6 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => 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: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.062451248 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.75 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 7.06452816374 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.244095076115 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880278640878 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0350306180015 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147416958158 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0239553589345 0.0443174109184 54% => 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: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => 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: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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