Commissioned to negotiate a loan that would enable Louis XVI to escape at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the Marquis de Favras was betrayed and tried for high treason. Though the evidence was inconclusive and the testimony contradictory, he was found guilty after a trial lasting several weeks.
Shortly before being led to the scaffold to be hanged, Favras was handed his death sentence, written out by a clerk of the court. "I see," he said, reading it over, "that you have made three spelling mistakes."
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