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The Marquis de Verneuil was a good hater: even poor De Gency's fate did not move him, and he actually did do what he had only threatened in mockery, he sent the orphan child to be a turnspit in the royal kitchen. Of course he changed his name, the title of an old and honored family would soon have betrayed the foul deed, and the boy was called Jacotot, after the chef himself.
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