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 that 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 lecture disapproves with the notions that Chevalier's memoir is wrong as the reading mentions and the views from the lecture trying to correct them as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that Chevalier was actually poor when he was in Switzerland since he had many loan records. However, the lecture believes that borrow a large amount of money does not mean a man is poor. Instead, he has to sell first then he can get the money so loan beforehand is understandable. Chevalier spend a lot of money on parties and gambling which he wrote in his memoir is a fact.
Secondly, the reading declares that the conversations between Chevalier and a noticeable writer, Voltaire, had been recorded in Chevalier's memoir is also inaccurate because the records were made after many years since the conversations were completed. The lecture put the concept forward that Chevalier wrote down notes about the conversations every night as soon as the conversation happened and the notes had been kept for many years in fact. The accuracy of the conversations are undeniable as the lecture states.
Finally, the reading casts doubts on the story that Chevalier escaped from a notorious prison by himself since he had many politically well-connected fiends. The lecture disputes it for there were many prisoners had more powerful friends than Chevalier and none of them successfully escaped. Another truth is the ceiling of the prison room Chevalier lived was repaired implies the ceiling was destroyed by Chevalier as his memoir wrote.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 320, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'spends'.
Suggestion: spends
...beforehand is understandable. Chevalier spend a lot of money on parties and gambling ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 320, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Chevalier) must be used with a third-person verb: 'spends'.
Suggestion: spends
...beforehand is understandable. Chevalier spend a lot of money on parties and gambling ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 367, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the conversations every night as soon as the conversation happened and the notes ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, then, well, as to, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1283.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.132 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80516380983 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.54 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 389.7 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => 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: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0313951022 49.2860985944 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.636363636 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7272727273 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.90909090909 7.06452816374 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254318703526 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101463755778 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0817830125512 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15122973522 0.162205337803 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0586785325521 0.0443174109184 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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