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Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Marquis De Sad Was Going Blind

The marquis had always enjoyed writing. He dabbled in plays and theatre in his younger days, but he never really committed himself to the craft of it. But now at the lowest point in his life, at absolute rock bottom, discovers his true passion - writing. It was within those pages that he could bring to life the fantasies and obsessions that the real world could never accept. On paper, he was truly free, free to indulge the darkest and most depraved corners of his mind. Writing became a form of vengeful selph therapy for the marquis,. A way to inflict pain and horror and shock on a society that had left him for dead in a stone

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