Издания и произведения

In this account of the scandalous life & violent times of the Marquis de Sade, novelist, essayist & biographer Francine du Plessix Gray resurrects his relationship with his family-- his devoted wife, iron-willed mother-in-law & three children. Gray draws on thousands of pages of letters exchanged by the spouses, few of which have been published in English, to explore in historical & psychological detail what it was like to be the Marquise de Sade, a decorous, upright woman married throughout the decades preceding the French Revolution to one of the most maverick spirits of recent times. Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade…