“Sade is remembered today both
because of his indiscretion, which, coupled with his lack of friends to help
him cover his tracks, led from one legal disaster to another, and also for the
particular flair for theater that he exhibited in his writings and in his life.”
“At the age of eleven, Sade went
from his uncle's house to the Jesuit school
of Louis le Grand in Paris, where he studied Latin, drama, sodomy
and corporal punishment until the age of fourteen, when his father bought him a
commission in the army.”
“The marquis launched into a stream
of profanities, cursing God, masturbating into a communion chalice and
describing how he had desecrated two communion wafers by inserting them into a
woman's vagina and then having sex with her.”
"Making his way back
to his feudal estate at La Coste, [Sade] amused himself, with his wife's
complicity, over the winter of 1774 by procuring five young female
servants and a young male secretary, whom he could arrange, in the
privacy of his own castle, into whatever floorshow suited his
fantasies."
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