What happens to Gabelle in A Tale of Two Cities?
I came to the conclusion that Gabelle was offered his freedom from the prison to which he had been taken and held if he would write a letter to Charles Darnay in order to get him to France so Madame Defarge’s lust for revenge could be satisfied. Of course, I may be suspicious-minded, and it could just be that he was used for that purpose and freed as a reward for doing what the republic believed was a patriotic thing (drawing Darnay back to Paris). Whichever the case, Gabelle was freed from prison, and the last you hear of him is at Charles Darnay’s trial. From chapter 36 (Book 3, chapter 6, Triumph), at Darnay’s trial in Paris ( http://www.online-literature.com/view.ph… ): “The President required the name of that citizen. The accused explained that the citizen was his first witness. He also referred with confidence to the citizen’s letter, which had been taken from him at the Barrier, but
