The stuff that wasn't big enough for Adam Englebright Dot Com . But for those of you who are lazy, the big stuff as well.
I read this a while ago, but I didn’t bookmark it. I was thinking about it again today. He seems like a really rather remarkable man - being willing to follow science even if it flies in the face of his (by all accounts, very strongly held) beliefs. Would that there were more people able to do that.
“En route to his execution in Auxerre, La Rochefoucauld made a break, leaping from the back of the truck carrying him to his doom, and dodging the bullets fired by his two guards. Sprinting through the empty streets, he found himself in front of the Gestapo’s headquarters, where a chauffeur was pacing near a limousine bearing the swastika flag. Spotting the key in the ignition, La Rochefoucauld jumped in and roared off, following the Route Nationale past the prison he had left an hour earlier.”
His biography has about 20 paragraphs more of this sort of thing, topped and tailed by childhood and old age. Totes amaze.
