Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

van Eyck invited Chamfort to accompany him to Germany in 1761.  
Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1812). Suicide

Unable to tolerate the prospect of being imprisoned once more in September 1793 he locked himself into his office and shot himself in the face.

He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister and of the Jacobin club.