Excerpt from The Fables of Florian

Though he had exercised the office of gentleman-ih-ordinary a almoner to the Duke de Penthievre, and had in that capacity a ministered relief to the poor with great delicacy and benevolenc yet when the revolution broke out he was accused of writing vers in honor of the queen, and hurried 0e to prison. He lived for time in momentary expectation of death, for his prison, that of Bourbe, had come to be noted as the inevitable first step towar the scaffold. The death of Robespierre, however, restored him liberty, but his imprisonment seemed to have left a melancho shade upon his spirit that time never fully removed. He died the 17th of September, 17 94, in the thirty-ninth year of his age.

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