Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois by Tony Rothman http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~trothman/galois.html

"This article is an attempt to sift some of the facts of Galois's life from the embroidery. It will not be an entirely complete account and will assume the reader is familiar with the story, presumably through Bell's version. Because these authors have emphasized the end of Galois's life, I will do so here. As will become apparent, many of the statements just cited are at at worst nonsensical, or at best have no basis in the known facts."