Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 42/50 "-- Roland is an administrative puppet and would-be orator, whose wife pulls the strings. There is an odd, dull streak in him, peculiarly his own. For example, in 1787 (Guillon de Montleon, "Histoire de la ville de Lyon, pendant la Revolution," 1.58), he proposes to utilize the dead, by converting them into oil and phosphoric acid. In 1788, he proposes to the Villefranche Academy to inquire "whether it would not be to the public advantage to institute tribunals for trying the dead ?" in imitation of the Egyptians. |