At Home With The Marquis De Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray
A Life
A nuanced biography that reexamines a notorious libertine through the women who shaped his life—his steadfast wife, his formidable mother-in-law, and his devoted sister-in-law—tracing his scandals, imprisonments, and survival through the Revolution. Drawing on letters and archives, it reconstructs a domestic world of privilege, manipulation, and power struggles, separating legend from daily reality. The result is a portrait of stark contradictions: a mythic provocateur revealed as a complicated, often dependent man enmeshed in family, law, and history.
- Published
- 1998
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 368-384
- Original Language
- English
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