Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grimm
Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Manky. Listener discretion advised a warning
Speaker 1: before we begin. This week's episode contains mentions of graphic
Speaker 1: sex and sexual violence. If that's not something you want
Speaker 1: to listen to, or if you are a younger listener,
Speaker 1: I would encourage you to skip this episode maybe and
Speaker 1: come back next week. Revolution was brewing in Paris. There
Speaker 1: were mobs in the city streets, and on July one,
Speaker 1: seventeen eighty nine, if anyone in those mobs happened to
Speaker 1: look up at the Bastille, they would have seen a man,
Speaker 1: a prisoner, standing in the window of his cell on
Speaker 1: the sixth floor, shouting down at them. Save the prisoners.
Speaker 1: The man yelled, their throats are being slack, they're being murdered.
Speaker 1: You must help. They were dramatic words, words that the
Speaker 1: prisoner was hoping would incite action. In actuality, the prison
Speaker 1: was nearly empty. The man shouting down from his window
Speaker 1: was the only prisoner remaining in his tower.
Speaker 2: He was short and.
Speaker 1: Wide, raggedly dressed, as you might expect. If the mob
Speaker 1: on the street had squinted, they might have seen that
Speaker 1: the prisoner was holding an object to his mouth like
Speaker 1: a modern day megaphone, a metallic funnel. Even if they
Speaker 1: had seen the object, the people on the street probably
Speaker 1: would not have guessed that the funnel was a piece
Speaker 1: of the prisoner's urinal though of course, use of the
Speaker 1: urinal funnel to magnify his voice was entirely functional in
Speaker 1: this case. The fact that this man one happened to
Speaker 1: be holding an object associated with bodily waste up to
Speaker 1: his mouth is uniquely appropriate given who that prisoner was.
Speaker 2: His name was.
Speaker 1: Dunisian Alphonse Francois, but he is better known as the
Speaker 1: Marquis de Sade. He is among the most infamous writers
Speaker 1: known to literary and cultural history, and among the most
Speaker 1: controversial for good reason for his writing depicting gruesome sexual
Speaker 1: tortures and violence that went as far as murder. His
Speaker 1: grisly sexual imagination is the origin of the word sadism.
Speaker 1: Though never quite as violent as his characters, his many
Speaker 1: stints in prison weren't just for his ideas either. The
Speaker 1: man poisoned and beat sex workers, and was credibly acute
Speaker 1: used of kidnapping teenage girls. The Marquis de Sade has
Speaker 1: been widely censored throughout history, and is also published as
Speaker 1: a Penguin classic. He has been reconsidered, redeemed and villainized
Speaker 1: in the changing political winds of history by everyone from
Speaker 1: Apolloniere to Simone de Beauvoir. He was a writer, above all,
Speaker 1: known for his libertine works of sexual violence, less known
Speaker 1: for his political and esthetic writings. And as the Marquis
Speaker 1: de Sade stood in the window of the Bastille the
Speaker 1: July that the French Revolution would reach its climax, shouting
Speaker 1: into the metallic funnel, he was also one more thing,
Speaker 1: perhaps surprisingly, a husband to a remarkably, even strangely devoted wife,
Speaker 1: a pious woman married to a man who had had
Speaker 1: endless affairs, mostly with sex workers, but also with her
Speaker 1: own sister. And yet she had stood by him throughout
Speaker 1: his many violent indiscretions, his many imprisonments, his burnings in effigy.
Speaker 1: As the Marquis de Sade stood there in the sixth
Speaker 1: floor of his prison tower, screaming, he may have been
Speaker 1: able to guess that soon he would be removed by
Speaker 1: the armed guards. In fact, he was removed at one
Speaker 1: the next morning. He may not have been able to
Speaker 1: guess that he wouldn't be allowed to take with him
Speaker 1: his library of six hundred books ranging from Homer to
Speaker 1: Robinson Crusoe to Erotica, that his wife had sent him
Speaker 1: by request.
Speaker 2: He may have.
Speaker 1: Had some sense that thirteen days later the Vestille would
Speaker 1: be stormed and the French Revolution would begin in o earnest,
Speaker 1: But surely Sod could not have known that he was
Speaker 1: on the immediate precipice of losing the two things in
Speaker 1: the world that surely he believed he would never be without,
Speaker 1: first the pages upon pages of his manuscripts, the scrawling
Speaker 1: writing that he had kept secret and hidden during his imprisonment,
Speaker 1: and second, at last, his once devoted wife. I'm Dana Schwartz,
Speaker 1: and this is noble blood. All right, listeners, Right off
Speaker 1: the bat, this is going to be an edgy one.
Speaker 1: Before diving into the story of Sod, let's start by
Speaker 1: acknowledging that sadism from the mind of the Marquis is
Speaker 1: not the now sex positive and consensual s that you
Speaker 1: might know from the contemporary acronym BDSM. Some of it
Speaker 1: starts there, but Sod's imagination goes far beyond even the
Speaker 1: most transgressive sex positivity into disturbing depictions of extreme tortures
Speaker 1: so obscene and violent that I can't won't even suggest
Speaker 1: them on this podcast. Fifty Shades of Gray is like
Speaker 1: a nursery rhyme by comparison. Sod himself told his lawyers
Speaker 1: that his books were quote too immoral to send to
Speaker 1: a man as pious and as decent as you.
Speaker 2: I needed money.
Speaker 1: My publisher asked me for something quite spicy, and I
Speaker 1: made him a book capable of corrupting the devil listeners.
Speaker 1: I can't give details of such works to someone as
Speaker 1: pious and decent as you, nor would I want to.
Speaker 1: What I can give is the story of the man
Speaker 1: behind those works. With that said, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: The Marquis de Sade was born on June two, seventeen forty,
Speaker 1: in the house of his father's mistress.
Speaker 2: Don't get me.
Speaker 1: Wrong, the Marquis was a legitimate child of his married parents,
Speaker 1: but Sad's father, Jean Baptiste, only married his wife in
Speaker 1: the first place to get closer to another woman, the
Speaker 1: Princess of Conde. Jean Baptiste loved the princess, but settled
Speaker 1: for marrying her lady in waiting Marie. Like his eventual
Speaker 1: son Jean Baptiste, had also been arrested for his sexual
Speaker 1: exploits with men, and Marie, unsurprisingly was rather absent from
Speaker 1: the household and from her son's childhood. In a sad
Speaker 1: little incident from the Marquis de Sad's early life, neither
Speaker 1: parent bothered to show up to his baptism, so a
Speaker 1: pair of servants baptized him with the wrong name. He
Speaker 1: was called Denisian Alphonse Francois, not Denisian al dunt Louise,
Speaker 1: as his absentee parents had originally intended. At age five,
Speaker 1: the young Sad moved in with his father's brother, who
Speaker 1: scandalously lived with a mother and daughter with whom he
Speaker 1: was both sleeping with. Sad had access to his uncle's
Speaker 1: impressive library, which included Molieri, Hobbes, and books with titles
Speaker 1: like The Bordello or The Everyman Debauched and The Good
Speaker 1: and Bad Uses of Flagellation. In other words, this was
Speaker 1: a child who grew up surrounded by promiscuous sex, for
Speaker 1: whom the taboo was commonplace. This was the era after
Speaker 1: the licentious regency period in France, when so called libertinism
Speaker 1: was common The word libertine comes from the Latin root liber,
Speaker 1: meaning free. A libertine was a person living without moral
Speaker 1: or religious restraint, particularly in the bedroom. When sod turned ten,
Speaker 1: his father sent him to a Jesuit school that disciplined
Speaker 1: boys by flogging them in front of their classmates. Accusations
Speaker 1: of sodomy also ran rampant at the school, which was
Speaker 1: a criminal act at the time. Usually, when covering a
Speaker 1: subject on noble blood, it's unnecessary to the story to
Speaker 1: either report or speculate on the specifics of the individual's
Speaker 1: sexual proclivities. But in the Marquis de Sad's life, his
Speaker 1: own personal sexual activity is so inextricably linked to his
Speaker 1: work and also to his life that I find it
Speaker 1: actually does hold some relevance here. So whether or not
Speaker 1: s'd first encountered sodomi at his Jesuit school, we know
Speaker 1: that in both his personal life and in his writings,
Speaker 1: for him, it was the only type of physical sex
Speaker 1: that ever satisfied him, whether he was in prison or
Speaker 1: in his marital bed, whether he was with men or
Speaker 1: with women. Young S'ad went on to fight in the
Speaker 1: Seven Years' War, where his sexual appetites were so well
Speaker 1: known that his honorable discharge papers called him deranged. By
Speaker 1: the time S'd was twenty two, his father was desperate to.
Speaker 2: Get him married off.
Speaker 1: Sad was therefore betrothed to a respectable young woman, renee
Speaker 1: Pelege Montcre. But six weeks before the wedding, Sada in
Speaker 1: Provence was writing letters to a different woman he wanted
Speaker 1: her instead, of course, while saying how much he loved her,
Speaker 1: he was also calling her an ungrateful wretch and blackmailing
Speaker 1: her regarding the gonorrhea that he also had likely given her. So, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: his relationship with that woman didn't work out. Nonetheless, Sod
Speaker 1: refused to come back to Paris to marry the woman
Speaker 1: that his father chose for him, and the wedding date
Speaker 1: was approaching. Sod's father knew what a mess he was
Speaker 1: creating for the young Rene Pelage Montrell and her mother.
Speaker 1: I pity them, he wrote, for making such a bad purchase,
Speaker 1: capable of making all kinds of trouble. Finally, one day
Speaker 1: before the wedding, Sod arrived back in Paris carrying the
Speaker 1: then traditional wedding delicacy of artichokes. He married Peleget, who
Speaker 1: stood four foot ten beside Sod's five foot two. This
Speaker 1: was a time when five' four would be considered. Average
Speaker 1: but even, so sd was. Short make of that what you,
Speaker 1: will and, shockingly The marquis and his new marquise actually
Speaker 1: seemed to really like each other like a. Lot sod
Speaker 1: called her his beloved soul and dearest. Friend Renee pelget
Speaker 1: came to at least, accept maybe even Enjoy sod's particular
Speaker 1: predilections in the, bedroom which, were AS i alluded to,
Speaker 1: before not the type that would risk. Pregnancy Biographer francine
Speaker 1: De Plusie gray said That Renee pelaget's utter adoration for
Speaker 1: her husband quote has a legendary mythical. Streak it is
Speaker 1: akin to the devotion displayed by wives Of ogres In
Speaker 1: european fairy. Tale of, course all of that love and
Speaker 1: devotion wasn't enough to restrain The marquis De. Sade she
Speaker 1: had married The marquis De, sade after, all and he was.
Speaker 1: Untamable three weeks after the, Wedding Renee pelget was. Pregnant
Speaker 1: five months after the, wedding her husband was in jail
Speaker 1: for the first. Time it was a relatively tame first.
Speaker 1: Charge he had forcibly demanded that a sex worker whip,
Speaker 1: him and he threatened to whip her in, turn all
Speaker 1: of which was actually kind of common practice at the
Speaker 1: time for a married male. Aristocrat but under threat of,
Speaker 1: violence he had also forced this woman to speak blasphemies Against.
Speaker 1: God it was Actually s'd's wife and mother in law
Speaker 1: who worked to get him out of. Prison he was
Speaker 1: only there for three, weeks but even still he considered
Speaker 1: his treatment massively. Unfair was a noble really going to
Speaker 1: get in such trouble for how he treated such lowly.
Speaker 1: Women In august seventeen sixty, Seven sod's first son was.
Speaker 1: Born eight months after, That sod was in jail, again
Speaker 1: this time for seven months for the violent coerced whipping
Speaker 1: of a woman Named Rose. Keller by seventeen seventy, Two
Speaker 1: sod and his wife had two sons and a, daughter
Speaker 1: and he was convicted for a third. Time he had
Speaker 1: given sex workers a candy that contained a dangerously high
Speaker 1: dose of an aphrodisiac Called spanish, fly which left at
Speaker 1: least one girl. Hospitalized Spanish fly is not a. Euphemism
Speaker 1: it is literally a bug a beatle actually rumored at
Speaker 1: the time to increase arousal and even used as a
Speaker 1: treatment for various, illnesses including STIs at the, time but
Speaker 1: it was also incredibly, toxic sometimes even deadly in large.
Speaker 1: Doses this, Time sod was sentenced to be burned and,
Speaker 1: beheaded in a practice.
Speaker 2: Common for nobles at the.
Speaker 1: Time he was burned only in, effigy and the sentence
Speaker 1: was considered. Complete in the, Meantime sod was off In
Speaker 1: italy with a very particular. Mistress his devoted wife's, Sister Anne,
Speaker 1: prosper was nine years younger than her, sister and she
Speaker 1: was infatuated with The marquis De. Sad, Still sod's wife
Speaker 1: stuck by. Him in seventeen seventy, Four sod had serious
Speaker 1: kidnapping allegations levied against. Him Renee pelge covered for, him
Speaker 1: knowing all along that he had in fact taken five
Speaker 1: young teenage girls and one young boy servants into the
Speaker 1: dungeon of his family chateau to have them act out
Speaker 1: depraved scenes and. Orgies, finally in seventeen seventy, seven and
Speaker 1: with the help of his once loving mother in, Law
Speaker 1: sod was taken into. Custody it would be the thirteen
Speaker 1: year long imprisonment that eventually led him to The. Bastille
Speaker 1: for a guy best known for his elaborate imaginations about
Speaker 1: torture and, RESTRAINT sd did not take well to. Imprisonment
Speaker 1: he was not initially held at The bastillo. Fortress he
Speaker 1: was first at a fortress Called vincenne cell, eleven with
Speaker 1: windows just barely high enough for him to see a
Speaker 1: sliver of sky above the fortress. Walls the marquis wrote
Speaker 1: to his wife constantly requesting incredibly specific items, herivens hemorrhoid,
Speaker 1: creams face, powder, toothpicks. Cologne she worked to send, them
Speaker 1: writing letters that professed ardent and passionate. Love sometimes he
Speaker 1: returned her. Affections he wrote about his intense desire for,
Speaker 1: her using euphemisms about his hem bow and. Arrow he
Speaker 1: asked her to send him cylindrical objects shaped in, very
Speaker 1: very particular. Dimensions but sometimes he turned on. Her he
Speaker 1: blamed her, mother correctly as it turned, out for his,
Speaker 1: imprisonment calling her a venomous, beast an infernal, monster and
Speaker 1: other epithets THAT i cannot speak on this. Podcast he
Speaker 1: sent his mother in law a letter written in his own.
Speaker 1: Blood in the height of, irony he Accused Rene pelaget's
Speaker 1: wife of wearing clothes that were too. Immodest as a,
Speaker 1: result she went to live at a. Convent it Was
Speaker 1: leap day of seventeen ninety four When sod was transferred
Speaker 1: to The. Bastille, ironically his tower was called The tower Of.
Speaker 2: Liberty he was.
Speaker 1: In an octagonal cell that he plastered with flowers and
Speaker 1: portraits of his, family almost like a dorm. Room by
Speaker 1: the end of his stay in The tower Of, liberty
Speaker 1: he was on the sixth, floor surrounded by six hundred
Speaker 1: books in a. Bookcase his collection Included, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: erotica and the Book Dangerous, liaisons written right around the
Speaker 1: time Of sod's. Imprisonment he also had dozens of pens
Speaker 1: and blank. Notebooks his wife had sent him all of
Speaker 1: it because upon being, Imprisoned sod turned at, last in
Speaker 1: earnest to the thing that he would become most famous for.
Speaker 1: Writing sod turned his wife into his research. Assistant he
Speaker 1: would ask her to find hotel, names, streets, managers and
Speaker 1: surrounding settings in locations as distant As lisbon And. Madrid
Speaker 1: yet his letters also derided the writing abilities of the
Speaker 1: very woman who was sending him the books and research
Speaker 1: and strawberries and rosewater he requested to The. Bastille in one,
Speaker 1: letter he, wrote, quote you don't seem to have bathed,
Speaker 1: today for it is impossible to read anything drier than your.
Speaker 2: Letter in, another.
Speaker 1: He, Wrote you've sent me three pages of idiotic, ramblings
Speaker 1: but it's in your manner to say stupidities to have
Speaker 1: your reason go off. Track Renee peleget is generally considered.
Speaker 1: Uneducated her writing is, misspelled and she certainly didn't share
Speaker 1: her husband's famous linguistic. Dexterity but she engaged him in
Speaker 1: complex questions of law and, ethics and she read and
Speaker 1: critiqued his. Manuscripts she also probably accidentally misled him in
Speaker 1: answer to some of his research. Questions the descriptions of
Speaker 1: foreign nations in The marquis De sade's books are often,
Speaker 1: wrong and that's the evidence that The marquis De sade's
Speaker 1: prison writings were actually reliant on his long suffering. Wife of,
Speaker 1: course sod was still in prison when he began writing
Speaker 1: his first book in seventeen eighty.
Speaker 2: Five he had to be.
Speaker 1: Secretive he wrote in frenzied three hours from seven to ten.
Speaker 1: Pm the night darkening outside his. Window as his hand
Speaker 1: trembled with, excitement he wrote on five inch pieces of
Speaker 1: paper in tiny. Handwriting there are many tales about books
Speaker 1: being written in ridiculously short periods of. Time, Supposedly Robert
Speaker 1: Louis stevenson Wrote Jacqueline hyde in three, Days Arthur Conan
Speaker 1: doyle wrote The First Sherlock Home story in three, weeks
Speaker 1: and fasad it took thirty seven days to produce forty
Speaker 1: nine feet of. Writing his book was about two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand, words about one thousand, pages more than
Speaker 1: double the size that would make a modern agent or
Speaker 1: editor blanche if they.
Speaker 2: Got it in the.
Speaker 1: Mail that book Was the one hundred and Twenty days Of,
Speaker 1: sodom a catalog of every possible sexually violent. ACT i
Speaker 1: cannot name them. Here you are welcome to look them up.
Speaker 1: Yourself but if you are imagining, titillation don't be surprised
Speaker 1: to find yourself. Repelled during all this, time the seeds
Speaker 1: of The French revolution were about to. Bloom revolutionaries were
Speaker 1: preparing their muskets and sharpening their. Swords The Liberty tower
Speaker 1: was emptied of all but one, Prisoner its most depraved
Speaker 1: and one day most famous The marquis De. Sade he
Speaker 1: had been hearing the discontent of the revolutionaries down, below
Speaker 1: and he was feeling bored and, annoyed denied his daily.
Speaker 1: Walks so at noon On july, one seventeen eighty, nine
Speaker 1: he took the funnel that linked his urinal to the, fortress,
Speaker 1: mote put it to his, mouth stood at his window
Speaker 1: and yelled down to the people. Below the prisoner's throats
Speaker 1: are being, cut he screamed down into the. Crowd if
Speaker 1: The marquis De sad is, anything it's consistent and his
Speaker 1: desire to provoke, people to say scandalous things and get a. Reaction,
Speaker 1: unsurprisingly The bestille guards were not happy with. Him at
Speaker 1: one am that, night they seized him in his cell
Speaker 1: and took him basically, naked to the convent of The
Speaker 1: brothers Of. Charity it, was In sod's, words an insane.
Speaker 1: Asylum sod was desperate over the loss of his, writings
Speaker 1: which were still hidden in his cell in The. Bastille
Speaker 1: he gave the police commissioner the right to open his
Speaker 1: cell as long as his, Wife madame De, sad was.
Speaker 1: There sod, assumed of, course that his wife would take
Speaker 1: his writings to, Safety but The marquise had been having
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 2: Of a change of.
Speaker 1: Heart we really don't know why at long, last the,
Speaker 1: wife who had stuck With sod through all of his,
Speaker 1: troubles finally changed her mind about. Him what we know
Speaker 1: is that On july, fourteenth thirteen days after her husband
Speaker 1: screamed from the window of his cell and was removed
Speaker 1: to an insane, asylum The bastille was stormed and blood
Speaker 1: ran through the streets Of. Paris we know that she
Speaker 1: was having mobility issues with her, legs and that she
Speaker 1: was forty eight years old and married to a man
Speaker 1: who had spent the better part of their lives together in,
Speaker 1: prisons and she was becoming more religious at the convent
Speaker 1: she lived. At and we know that On april, first
Speaker 1: seventeen Ninety sad was. Released he was, balding nearly, fifty
Speaker 1: wearing a ratty woolen. Coat we can only imagine the
Speaker 1: feeling of freedom after a thirteen year. Imprisonment he must
Speaker 1: have breathed in the fresh air, exhaled and he had
Speaker 1: only one the one thing on his, mind his. Wife
Speaker 1: maybe he wanted to do to her these sexual things
Speaker 1: that he had described in his letters over the. Years
Speaker 1: maybe he simply wanted to sit down together to a
Speaker 1: good meal at a table where they could stay for
Speaker 1: as long as they. Wanted man and wife reunited at.
Speaker 1: Last he went immediately to seek her out and found her.
Speaker 1: Convent he waited patiently For renee pelage to come meet.
Speaker 2: Him she never.
Speaker 1: Came your wife does not wish to see you ever,
Speaker 1: again a messenger Told. Sod she wants a legal. Separation
Speaker 1: sad never again saw the manuscript that he left.
Speaker 2: Behind in The.
Speaker 1: Bastille but the bigger blow was the loss of his
Speaker 1: long suffering. Wife AS i, said we don't know for
Speaker 1: sure Why Renee pelaget changed her mind at. Last it's
Speaker 1: not as though she had a shortage Of BUT i
Speaker 1: will add one. Suggestion it must have been much easier
Speaker 1: to have a husband like The marquis De. Sade when
Speaker 1: he was in. Prison you could visit him and then
Speaker 1: leave him safely behind, you where you knew you would
Speaker 1: find him the next. Time in, prison he could not
Speaker 1: be frequenting brothels and picking up yet another venereal disease
Speaker 1: to pass on to. You with him in, prison you
Speaker 1: had a modicum of control in your marriage to a
Speaker 1: man who had so abused and degraded you for rene,
Speaker 1: pelage her husband's imprisonment must have been a freedom that
Speaker 1: she could not give. UP a certain streak of karma
Speaker 1: would have Had sad live out the rest of his days.
Speaker 1: Alone but he quickly met a new, woman thirty three
Speaker 1: year Old Constant, quesnay who had a six year old
Speaker 1: son from previous. Marriage she became yet another inexplicably devoted.
Speaker 1: PARTNER i know a ton of amazing women who are
Speaker 1: still single, today and this guy finds endless. Devotes love
Speaker 1: is not. Fair it was After sad's stint in The
Speaker 1: bastille and after the loss of his, wife that he
Speaker 1: wrote the works for which he would become best known
Speaker 1: in his. Lifetime philosophy in The, Boudoir justine And juliette
Speaker 1: were sexually explicit and violent books that shocked society's. Sensibilities
Speaker 1: sad was free for only eleven years before he was
Speaker 1: arrested again at his publisher's office in eighteen oh, one
Speaker 1: this time for the crime of. Obscenity he spent another
Speaker 1: thirteen year stint in the insane, asylum still receiving conjugal
Speaker 1: visits from at least two whims women until he died
Speaker 1: On december twond eighteen, fourteen at age seventy. Four he
Speaker 1: willed everything to his second, Partner. Constance he stated in
Speaker 1: his will THAT i trust the memory of me shall
Speaker 1: fade out in the minds of all. Men of, course
Speaker 1: that's not what. Happened the legacy of The marquis De
Speaker 1: sade is extremely. Complicated at various points over the, centuries
Speaker 1: his reputation has been sanitized and resurrected as a figurehead against.
Speaker 1: Censorship at other, points his work has been castigated for
Speaker 1: its misogynistic violence and censored all over. Again he is
Speaker 1: one of those lightning rod historical figures who is endlessly
Speaker 1: used for the political ends of whichever movement wants to evoke.
Speaker 1: Him he has been revisited by everyone From flaubert To
Speaker 1: simone De. Beauvoir Mary shelley may have named her case
Speaker 1: Character justine And, frankenstein After sad's character of the same.
Speaker 1: Name The one hundred And Twenty days Of sodom was
Speaker 1: translated anew Into english as A penguin classic in twenty.
Speaker 1: Seventeen it is complicated to Consider sod in the contemporary.
Speaker 1: Moment do we defend his works on the basis of
Speaker 1: anti censorship and the virtue of sex positivity or at
Speaker 1: least open sexual. Expression or do we reject the works
Speaker 1: on the basis of opposition to misogyny and violence against,
Speaker 1: women opposition to the author the sexual coercion and, violence
Speaker 1: abduction and rape actually committed by the man. Himself and
Speaker 1: how do we even Read sad if we? Do were
Speaker 1: his writings.
Speaker 2: Even meant to be? Erotic they may.
Speaker 1: Have been at least heartly, comedy partly, satire partly political
Speaker 1: commentary amidst the beheadings and power upheavals of The French.
Speaker 1: Revolution Maybe sad was an eighteenth century troll and his
Speaker 1: works were just meant to be provocative for the sake of.
Speaker 1: Provocation Duplicit gray writes that far from intending to arouse the,
Speaker 1: reader the quote repugnance of the one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: days quote makes it far more conducive to. CHASTITY i
Speaker 1: have to be honest listener Reading sod's works for this,
Speaker 1: EPISODE i was second by his treatment of his, characters
Speaker 1: especially the, women AND i want to be very clear
Speaker 1: about my opinions. Here, often when researching a historical, FIGURE
Speaker 1: i find myself ending with more empathy for them than
Speaker 1: WHEN i. Began but in this CASE i just feel
Speaker 1: disgusted and yet. Simoned ABOVE whi our mother of second wave,
Speaker 1: feminism wrote an essay arguing that we should not Burn
Speaker 1: sod because he shows us something important about the dark
Speaker 1: heart of. Humanity in the, END i think there's a
Speaker 1: way to believe That sod should not be jailed for
Speaker 1: obscenity in his, writing only for his, actions to think
Speaker 1: that his works should not be, censored and also to
Speaker 1: think that we need not celebrate in order not to.
Speaker 1: Censor the heirs Of sod.
Speaker 2: May feel the.
Speaker 1: Same the line Of, sod which stretched back to medieval,
Speaker 1: times stopped using the Title marquis after his death in eighteen.
Speaker 1: Fourteen out of. Embarrassment the heirs began to call themselves compt,
Speaker 1: instead all the way until twenty, fourteen when one heir
Speaker 1: chose to reclaim marquis. Again who knows what time will
Speaker 1: bring whether future generations will once more renounce their claims
Speaker 1: to the Infamous. Libertine that's the story of the Infamous
Speaker 1: marquis De. Sade but stick around after a brief sponsor
Speaker 1: break to hear a little bit more about the fate
Speaker 1: of his most Famous bestille manuscript and how it actually
Speaker 1: became the one hundred and Twenty days Of. Sodom The
Speaker 1: marquis De sade never saw his one hundred and Twenty
Speaker 1: days Of sodom, again and it was never published in his.
Speaker 1: Lifetime he died believing that the manuscript was destroyed in The,
Speaker 1: Bestille but the fate of the one hundred Twenty days
Speaker 1: was not so. Simple unbeknownst to The marquis De, sade
Speaker 1: it was discovered and removed by A ciphilian two days
Speaker 1: before the storming of The. Bastille it wound up published
Speaker 1: for the first time in nineteen o four by a
Speaker 1: psychiatrist and sexologist based In, berlin who published it under a.
Speaker 1: Pseudonym the book was considered appropriate for medical and psychiatric
Speaker 1: use as a massive catalog of sexual. Desire in twenty,
Speaker 1: fourteen the original manuscript was purchased for seven million euros
Speaker 1: by A frenchman who had literally won the lottery and
Speaker 1: was later arrested for running A ponzi. Scheme in twenty twenty,
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