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Her real name was Jacqueline, but every one on the plantation called her La Folle, because in childhood she had been frightened literally "out of her senses," and had never wholly regained them. It was when there had been skirmishing and sharpshooting all day in the woods.
1782 is the date given by M. Hippolyte Lucas. Sainte-Beuve places it two years later. This play, produced for the first time under the title of La Folle Journée, was written by one Caron de Beaumarchais a man of wit, a man of letters, a man of the people, a man of nothing and was destined to achieve immortality under its later title of Le Mariage de Figaro.
In the Bishopric of Wurtzburg, so late as 1750, a nun was burnt for witchcraft: 'Cette malheureuse fille soutint opiniâtrément qu'elle était sorcière.... Elle était folle, ses juges furent imbécilles et barbares. Voltaire's Works, ed. 1819, xxvi. 285.
Je crois, cependant, que la peine qu'on aurait prise de savoir ce qu'elle veut declarer serait si legere, qu'on ne la regretterait pas, quand meme on decouvrirait que cette femme n'est qu'une folle." But now, all these softer, milder feelings seemed burnt out in the wild fire of revenge and scorn which blazed through her whole being.
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