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The
Marquis de Sade
A Life
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The definitive
biography by Neil Schaeffer
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The
ancestral
home
of
the Marquis de Sade had stood for centuries on the
brow of a hill, overlooking the picturesque town of La Coste in
Provence. Sade had spent 13 years in various prisons under a royal lettre
de
cachet obtained by his mother-in-law, but when he was released
after the Revolution, he learned that his chateau had been looted and
destroyed by his former vassals. Today, the empty windows and broken
walls are a reminder of the fragility of life and of the mind that had
once lived behind those walls. |
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