Note 132 — Chapter X · FRESH TORTURES, PÉCOLAT’S DESPAIR AND STRIKING DELIVERANCE.
Reading edition
Bonivard, Chroniq. ii. pp. 301, 304. Roset, Hist. de Genève, MS. liv. i. ch. lxxxi. The testimony of these two contemporary authors leaves no doubt as to the reality of Pécolat’s attempt. (See also Savyon, Annales, p. 61.) This circumstance has been the subject of a long archæological controversy, whose solution is simply this: Pécolat did not cut off, he only cut, his tongue.