Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Murder of Een Brady and Mira Hindley
The prosecution believed that a key to the twisted world view of ean brady and mira hindley could be found within justine. The literary spirit of the marquis de sad has haunted western thought for centuries. His name is literally a synonym for cruelty and perversion. It's where we get the word sadism, which the dictionary defines as delight in cruelty or extreme cruelty.
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