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. They explore Sade’s philosophical materialism and radical sex...
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Around 1789
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)