Written on the eve of the Revolution, Sade's famous text has known many owners in Europe, even offering Bismarck's Germany a pretext to denigrate France.
An incredible destiny commensurate with its sulphurous character.
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Sade: the "Divine Marquis" in question
It is one of the most embarrassing manuscripts in the history of literature.
As much by its content as by its format.
A bizarre, long, terrible, sometimes illegible scroll, which was composed in prison by the Marquis de Sade.
Today, the text would perhaps shock even more than yesterday.
“Can we read Sade after #MeToo?”
A Communist official recently wondered.
"Is Sade starting to scare again?"
This is the question posed by historian and scholar Michel Delon in his latest book,
La 121e Journée
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The incredible story of the Sade manuscript
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This great specialist in the libertines of the Enlightenment retraces the more than eventful epic of this sulphurous scroll composed secretly in a dungeon in Vincennes which has been found since
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