517 The Marquis de Sade
The History of Literature
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The Life and Times of a Jesuit
He hired a German woman to come and clean his house. And then he locked her up, bound her, whipped her, and poured hot wax into the wounds. A father showed up and fired a pistol at him hoping to end the demon's life. Then came the Bastille and the French Revolution. In spite of being an aristocrat, he was elected in the post-revolution period to the National Assembly. Naturally, he wanted free public brothels. He began publishing novels, a few of them anonymously. Though eventually it became learned that they were by him. We heard from Justine or the Miss Fortune's of Virtue, published in 1791.
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