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ACU J-F-X de Whyte

De Whyte in the Bastille

Jacques-François-Xavier de Whyte, comte de Malleville (1730 – 1790s), born James Francis Xavier Whyte, was an Irish nobleman and former officer of the French Army imprisoned in the Bastille from 1784 to 1789.

Biography[]

Having been declared insane, Whyte was moved from a hospital to the Bastille in Paris in 1784. He grew a long beard and believed himself to be Julius Caesar. When Arno was brought in the fortress, he casually overheard Whyte quoting the famous opening line of Caesar's De Bello Gallico: Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

On 14 July 1789, the Storming of the Bastille took place, and Whyte was freed by the protesters. Within a week however, he was sent to the Charenton insane asylum.

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