"Neuchâtel. Only my name might have been Fenouillot, and I might have come from Besançon, since I belong to a Franche-Comté family which did not leave until after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes."
"In that case I should have recognized you for a fellow-countryman by the accent."
"Excuse me, general, but how did you know that I was not a commercial traveller for champagne."
"By the way you opened the bottles. Citizen, another time choose another character."
"What one, for instance?"
"A bookseller."
"You know me, then?"
"I have heard of you."
"In what way?"
"As an uncompromising enemy of the Republic, and the author of royalist pamphlets. Excuse me if I continue to question you."