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.
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.
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]