Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Secret Life of Donatien De Sad
At 14 years old, donatien de sad is granted a commission in an elite cavalry regiment and becomes an officer in a french military. The quiet, sulking bookworm goes into the military cocoon and becomes a swaggering, charming rake at 18 years old. As he wrote while stationed in germany, i was told that to learn a language well, it was necessary to sleep regularly with a woman of the country. This is when we start actual letters written by the man himself, and we get a sense of his personality in his own words.
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