Chevalier's Conversation With Vilatire

In the lecture, the lecturer casts doubt on the idea that Chevalier distorted or invented alot of events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was, which is supported in the reading passage.

For one thing, the author of the reading passage states that Chevalier might be not rich because he borrowed considerable sums of money from Swiss merchant. However, the lecturer rebuts this point by arguing that most Chevalier 's assets were properties, so if Chevalier wanted to make some cash, he needed a time for capitalization. He borrowed moeny to use cash quickly, not because he was poor.

Second of all, the author says that Chevalier's memoir cannot capture the conversations with Vilatire accurately, because it was written many years after the converstation occured. Chevalier might make the conversation in memoir. In contrast, the lecturer states that Chevalier wrote down the contents after the conversation everynight, so he could wrote such a considerable contents. Composing the memos when Cheavlier became a old, is supported the fact.
However, the lecturer rebuts this point by arguing that there were a few prisoner who have more political power that Chevalier in the prison, but they could not escape from there by bribe. In addition, the government paper said that the prisons' celing were repaired exactily after the Chevalier escaped from