Talk:Nicolas Chamfort

Untitled
IV, 249: "Nature didn't tell me: be poor, nor even: be rich; instead she clamours: be independent!" (It's too good to go wasted, but... where should it go?)--Tridentinus 11:25, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Could the author please give sources as I have found no evidence of Sieyes's pamphlet title (Qu'est ce que le tiers etat?) being traced back to Chamfort. Also the way this sentence is phrased leaves the impression that Sieyes owed his success to Chamfort...hardly. Xqalibur (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The Title of this page is wrong: It should be Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also know as Chamfort, or simpler: Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort. Chamfort is a pseudonym. I suggest a page move.

fr:Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=260

@Xqalibur: What Is the Third Estate?, fr:Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État ?

(Bh28 (talk) 21:53, 26 May 2012 (UTC))

Wording Is Confusing
This page has been here a while and the quality is really terrible. Take this bit from the very beginning: "though endowed with immense physical strength—Madame de Craon called him "Hercule sous la figure d'Adonis"..." The word "though" makes it sound as if he was going to he called something else, like "though he was strong, they called him weak" not "though he was strong, they called him strong". That makes absolutely no sense. Also, half of the French sayings have no translation whatsoever. The whole thing is in need of a terrible re-write. Also, of his suicide: "He dictated to those who came to arrest him [...] which he signed in a firm hand in his own blood. The butler found him unconscious..." So, the butler found him unconscious and called the police then they came and he dictated to them the thing then... well how do you dictate by writing in blood? I imagine what his is supposed to say is that he wrote (not dictated) the thing he wrote in his own blood then passed out unconscious, after which the butler found him and got the police? --Sardonicus (talk) 13:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 01:13, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Suicide attempt.
The section, mosty unsourced, presented bloody details which I could not find in the closest mention to the fact.

15:27, 18 July 2021 (UTC)