Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Aristocrat or Democrat?
The marquis de sade was heir to one of the oldest families in france. He's got a wrap sheet longer than the forty nine foot murder sex novel he wrote in the bastille if you're going to guillotine any one, it's going to be sod. Any one with aristocratic or royalist affiliations were harassed, harangued and often murdered. Despite the murderous acts of his characters and his books, sad despised the very concept of the death penalty,. And there was no greater infringement on personal liberty than being killed by the state.
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