if his buddies didn’t call him “le Marquis de Foie Gras” they would have missed a wonderful opportunity. I mean it’s right there.
And we know for why he was hanged.
Do you think he would have corrected you if you had said he was hung? 🤔
Well, both could be correct. I can’t find the relevant info on Wikipedia though.
I would have shot him like a dog if he corrected me.
What a legend
If legends like this couldn’t survive 18th century The Purge then I don’t like my chances
I wonder if they fired the person who wrote out the death sentence.
Seems unlikely. Wikipedia:
Upon the reading of his death warrant, he supposedly remarked, “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.”[4] However, this version appears to derive from a five act play Marion de Lorme by Victor Hugo, written in 1828 and performed in 1831.[5] Ferdinand Rothschild gives the quotation as “Permit me to point out that you have made three mistakes in spelling”.[6] One source says merely that “Favras then quietly corrects the spelling and punctuation errors made by the clerk in his statement”.[7]
Before I’m hanged: “also, this death sentence is a whole-ass paragraph.”
Urk!
A noble French name, with a death sentence in 1790. There’s a good chance that the radical republican that issued the sentence was accused of being a monarchist by another even more radical republican a year or two later and executed as well.
The Revolution ate a lot of her children.
As all revolutions always do
Not… really? Like, nobody strung up Washington for being a tyrant. Cromwell ruled England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland until he died. Castro ruled Cuba until he died. Stalin was one of Lenin’s lieutenants, and ran the Soviet Union until he died.
The French Revolution (of 1789, the big one) was infamous for this. The original batch of revolutionaries were mostly liberal-ish nobles and lawyers. The second wave (of what the original guys considered to be street trash) sent many of those guys to the guillotine if they didn’t get out of town fast enough. The third wave sent a bunch of second wave guys to the guillotine. Et cetera, until Napoléon grabbed the reins.
The American revolution might be the exception that confirms the rule, since the new regime (Congress and the President) seem to have not persecuted, legally or extra legally, any Americans or their allies who fought against Britain after the war was won. I at least could not find any examples of this. Benedict Arnold doesn’t count since he did, beyond any doubt, commit treason against the revolution and rightfully was persecuted for his actions.
Cromwell’s station in the revolution of Parliament against king Charles was very minor during the first half of the civil war. But he rose to prominence and thereafter many of his former allies were persecuted (with the exception of lord Thomas Fairfax).
Castro persecuted many of his former allies after Batista was ousted from Cuba, including Manuel Urrutia Lleó and Huber Matos Benítez (and also maybe Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán, since his accident happened during a very convenient moment)…
Stalin. REALLY??? He had Trotsky killed two continents away and more communist party members died because of him than because of the Tzar!
Oh, man, that’d be me. But not in a smug way. More like in an OCD way where my hanging before they could be corrected was the greatest injustice of all.
Honestly, whatever. France at this point had barely even begun its process of centralizing the French language. The idea of universal public schooling wouldn’t even be considered until years later, but wouldn’t be created until much later because France during this time be warring, and they be warring a lot. So not even there wasn’t an universal French language to proudly declare that yours and yours alone was grammatically correct, most people wouldn’t have even be properly taught to read. The guy should have gotten guillotined twice. Somehow.
Of course, Monsieur le Marquis de SuddenDownpour.
Also, it’s obviously inaccurate as he would have said it in French, not English. Duh!
