That mirabeau should have gained his bread writing libels and obscene novels, meant to Alfieri not that a man born in corruption and tainted thereby had, by the force of his genius, by the force of the great humanitarian movement, raised himself as morally high as he had hitherto grovelled morally low; it merely meant that the immaculate name of hero was degraded by a foul writer.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
"It is said that mirabeau is arrested somewhere, for something.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Who knows how the French Revolution would have ended had mirabeau, orator of the great and solemn days, survived to put into action the idealism of Rousseau?
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson