He then went to London, and thence to Brussels, where, for his support of the reforms of Mirabeau, who returned his ill-will with interest, calling him'the ignorant and bombastic M . Linguet, advocate of Neros, sultans and viziers '.
12.
Marcel Pagnol finds this black mask in accounts from the Bastille : Lieutenant Du Junca, in his records reporting the arrival of the prisoner at the Bastille, along with a certain prisoner called Linguet, respectively mention " " a mask of black velvet ", " " " of velvet and " " not of iron " ".
13.
He was found guilty twice and, like the majority of the former inmates of his " clinic ", escaped the guillotine only because the Magon de La Balue, guillotined with his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers and cousins; and the lawyer Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet, despite his denunciation of the monarchy, for which he had spent a year in the Bastille under the ancien regime.
14.
His best legal treatise is " M�moire pour le comte de Morangies " ( Paris, 1772 ); Linguet's imprisonment in the Bastille afforded him the opportunity of writing his " M�moires sur la Bastille ", first published in London in 1789; it has been translated into English ( Dublin, 1783, and Edinburgh, 1884-1887 ), and is the best of his works though untrustworthy.
