Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of correspondence between the magnetic, aristocratic Marquis de Sade and his plain, bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with this maverick adventurer and man of letters in the decades before the French Revolution. She brilliantly recreates the extravagant hedonism and corruption of late-18th-century France, the ensuing Terror, and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which de Sade spent his last years.
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Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of correspondence between the magnetic, aristocratic Marquis de Sade and his plain, bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with this maverick adventurer and man of letters in the decades before the French Revolution. She brilliantly recreates the extravagant hedonism and corruption of late-18th-century France, the ensuing Terror, and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which de Sade spent his last years.
Imprint | Pimlico |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | August 2000 |
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Authors | Francine du Plessix Gray |
Dimensions | 235 x 154 x 1mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 496 |
Edition | New Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7126-6522-3 |
Barcode | 9780712665223 |
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LSN | 0-7126-6522-6 |