Author: Du Plessix Gray, Francine
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At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
Price: $6.98
Publisher: Penguin Books : December 1999
Seller ID: 460507
ISBN-13: 9780140286779
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Much has been written about the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), the flamboyant aristocrat whose years indulging in sexual aberrations inspired his celebrated works 120 Days of Sodom and Justine -- and landed him in the Bastille. However, scant attention has been paid to the two women who were closest to him: Renee Pelagie de Sade, his adoring wife, and his powerful mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil.Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of letters exchanged by the married couple, few of which have been published before in English, to explore in the fullest historical and psychologi...
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