both the authorship and the accuracy of the pamphlet, but it enjoyed a considerable popularity at the time of the French Revolution. Latude also wrote essays on a wide variety of subjects. Britannica references Claude Quetel, Escape from the Bastille: The Life and Legend of Latude (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990) J. F. Barrire, Mémoires de Linguet et de Latude (1884) G. Bertin, Notice in edition of the Mémoires (1889) F. Funck-Brentano, "Latude", in the Revue des deux mondes (1 October 1889) References External links 1725 births 1805 deaths 18th-century French criminals French male non-fiction writers French male criminals Prisoners of the Bastille 18th-century French memoirists