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That's a common myth. See this paper referenced in the wikipedia article:

Rothman, Tony (1982). "Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois". The American Mathematical Monthly. 89 (2): 84–106. doi:10.2307/2320923. JSTOR 2320923

[ForOldHack]

Quite the clickbait. You can only access it from the pay site, or unless you can get a school library to access it, which I will do. Only the first page is available free.

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Or you can paste the following JSTOR link into sci-hub.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2320923