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The Marquis de Sade
A Life |
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
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