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pregnant, the secretary was taken away by his parents and the girls, whose worried families had contacted the authorities, were dispatched to various convents and safe houses.
The Marquis de Sade was once again arrested on February 13, 1777, this time due to the contrivance of his mother-in-law, who had never forgiven him for seducing her daughter. He was imprisoned in the chateau at Vincennes before being moved to Aix to face the courts. However, he managed to escape while under guard and hid once again at La Coste. Having learned nothing from his previous experiences, de Sade immediately slipped back into his old ways. He enlisted the help of a local priest to bring in a new group of girls for his orgies, but this soon backfired on him. An outraged father tracked his daughter down to the chateau and attempted to shoot de Sade at close range. Luckily for de Sade, the gun misfired, but it was enough for him to re-evaluate his situation. He made the mistake of returning to Paris, where he was immediately arrested by the authorities on September 7, 1778.
A LIFE BEHIND BARS
In 1778, de Sade began an eleven-year term in prison, first at Vincennes, and then later at the notorious Bastille in Paris. Denied the decadent lifestyle and pleasures that he was used to, de Sade started to write down his fantasies, living out his dreams in the form of words. His works became more and more disturbing, describing severe sexual mutilation, rape, murder and incest.
It was during this period that he produced his famous works – Dialgoue between a Priest and a Dying Man, The 120 Days of Sodom, The Misfortunes of Virtue, Aline and Valcour and the first drafts of Justine and Juliette . Keeping his writing secret from his jailers, de Sade let his imagination run away with him, his mind matching the filthy prison cells where he was forced to spend his time. The contents of these works, along with other plays and numerous short stories, were so disturbing that they were secreted out of the prison and published anonymously.
The Marquis de Sade’s philosphy was simple:
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all . . . ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
His most famous work, Justine , has been descibed as ‘fit for corrupting the devil’ and goes into graphic detail about the sexual encounters of a young peasant girl.
FREEDOM
On Good Friday, July 14, 1789, following the outbreak of the French Revolution, the prisoners of the Bastille were freed by a revolutionary mob. This became known as Bastille Day, and the Marquis de Sade, with his new-found freedom, started to get involved in French politics.
His wife, who no longer wanted anything to do with her husband, asked for a separation. His children, who he had hardly ever seen, were strangers to him and de Sade was now free from the constraints of family life. With Paris in the heat of a revolution and enormous changes taking place throughout France, the petty crimes of the Marquis de Sade were no longer of importance. He became politically active, writing political pamphlets, and was voted as the President of the Piques section in Paris. As part of his duties, he presided as Grand Juror over many trials, including, ironically, that of his mother-in-law. Given that she had been instrumental in his imprisonment, de Sade could have exacted his revenge, but he did for her what he did for most of the prisoners, he dismissed the case. He was loath to apply the death penalty to anyone.
However, with the revolution came issues that de Sade was unable to accept. He started to advocate, somewhat hypocritically, for total socialism and the complete abolition of property, despite the fact that he insisted on keeping his own estates. The Reign of Terror, which took place between 1793 and 1994, saw thousands of public executions, something that made de Sade
The Marquis de Sade was once again arrested on February 13, 1777, this time due to the contrivance of his mother-in-law, who had never forgiven him for seducing her daughter. He was imprisoned in the chateau at Vincennes before being moved to Aix to face the courts. However, he managed to escape while under guard and hid once again at La Coste. Having learned nothing from his previous experiences, de Sade immediately slipped back into his old ways. He enlisted the help of a local priest to bring in a new group of girls for his orgies, but this soon backfired on him. An outraged father tracked his daughter down to the chateau and attempted to shoot de Sade at close range. Luckily for de Sade, the gun misfired, but it was enough for him to re-evaluate his situation. He made the mistake of returning to Paris, where he was immediately arrested by the authorities on September 7, 1778.
A LIFE BEHIND BARS
In 1778, de Sade began an eleven-year term in prison, first at Vincennes, and then later at the notorious Bastille in Paris. Denied the decadent lifestyle and pleasures that he was used to, de Sade started to write down his fantasies, living out his dreams in the form of words. His works became more and more disturbing, describing severe sexual mutilation, rape, murder and incest.
It was during this period that he produced his famous works – Dialgoue between a Priest and a Dying Man, The 120 Days of Sodom, The Misfortunes of Virtue, Aline and Valcour and the first drafts of Justine and Juliette . Keeping his writing secret from his jailers, de Sade let his imagination run away with him, his mind matching the filthy prison cells where he was forced to spend his time. The contents of these works, along with other plays and numerous short stories, were so disturbing that they were secreted out of the prison and published anonymously.
The Marquis de Sade’s philosphy was simple:
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all . . . ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
His most famous work, Justine , has been descibed as ‘fit for corrupting the devil’ and goes into graphic detail about the sexual encounters of a young peasant girl.
FREEDOM
On Good Friday, July 14, 1789, following the outbreak of the French Revolution, the prisoners of the Bastille were freed by a revolutionary mob. This became known as Bastille Day, and the Marquis de Sade, with his new-found freedom, started to get involved in French politics.
His wife, who no longer wanted anything to do with her husband, asked for a separation. His children, who he had hardly ever seen, were strangers to him and de Sade was now free from the constraints of family life. With Paris in the heat of a revolution and enormous changes taking place throughout France, the petty crimes of the Marquis de Sade were no longer of importance. He became politically active, writing political pamphlets, and was voted as the President of the Piques section in Paris. As part of his duties, he presided as Grand Juror over many trials, including, ironically, that of his mother-in-law. Given that she had been instrumental in his imprisonment, de Sade could have exacted his revenge, but he did for her what he did for most of the prisoners, he dismissed the case. He was loath to apply the death penalty to anyone.
However, with the revolution came issues that de Sade was unable to accept. He started to advocate, somewhat hypocritically, for total socialism and the complete abolition of property, despite the fact that he insisted on keeping his own estates. The Reign of Terror, which took place between 1793 and 1994, saw thousands of public executions, something that made de Sade
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