When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

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.