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Taming the Savage Noble
By Francis X. Rocca
The first time the Marquis de Sade went to prison, in 1763, it was under a royal lettre de cachet signed by Louis XV, on charges of "blasphemy and incitement to sacrilege." Thirty years later, after the Revolution, the aristocrat nearly went to the guillotine for having "corresponded with enemies of the republic."
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/taming-the-savage-noble/377506/