Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence (TRIH ep 365)
1789 · Resource
This episode examines the life, works and long shadow of the Marquis de Sade. Holland and Sandbrook narrate Sade’s biography: his aristocratic background, military service in the Seven Years’ War, serial scandals and repeated imprisonments under the Ancien Régime, his prolific prison-writing (notably The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom written in the Bastille), and his turbulent role during the French Revolution and its aftermath.
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Around 1789
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Revolution (1765)