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Pardon My French: The Marquis de Sade

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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Rose Keller, a French Speaker, and a Housekeeper

Rose keller was essentially a homeless woman, and that easter sunday, she'd been begging, asking for charity outside ah at the parisian place de victoise. She looked across the street and saw a young, well dressed gentleman leaning against a statue of louis the fourteenth. The gentleman says something like, hey there. You look like you could use a little extra money. Wabout wea go back to my place? Rose keller wasn't much of a french speaker, but she knew what that meant. But she looks at this guy with the nice clothes and the fancy knife and the handsome face, and she sees dollar signs, and for a little afternoon cleaning

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