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Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Marquis of the Bastille

The marquis could hear unrest outside his tower window. One day, a crowd had gathered outside a protest against the french monarchy. And sad start screaming at the top of his lungs from his windowqot help. They are massacring the prisoners. The guards are slitting our throats. You must come and free us. Well, sad gets punished for this little outburst. The warden transfers him out of the bastille and to a mental hospital where he would make less trouble. Less than a week later, on july fourteenth, revolutionaries storm the bastille. They massacre the warden and carry his head through the streets on a pike. He was safe lly guarded at

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