The Marquis De Sade Would Have Been a Shoo In for a Tinder Ban And Jail Time
De Sade returned to France in 1776 and resumed the kinds of perversions that get people kicked off Tinder. They steadily intensified, and one scandal followed another in quick succession. Finally, the authorities tricked him in 1777 to go to Paris to visit his supposedly sick mother. Unbeknownst to him, she had actually died. When he reached Paris, de Sade was arrested and locked up in the dungeon of a royal fortress. He was kept there, in harsh conditions, until 1784, when he was transferred to the Bastille. He remained there until transferred to a mental asylum two days before the Bastille was stormed in 1789.
De Sade was released in 1790 amidst France’s revolutionary turmoil. He took to the new order, and took to calling himself “Citizen Sade”. Within months, he got himself elected to the National Convention as a representative of the far left. He barely survived the Reign of Terror, during which he was imprisoned for a year. He emerged from jail in 1794, utterly destitute. In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered de Sade arrested and imprisoned without trial for pornographic novels he had written years earlier. In 1803, de Sade’s family had him declared insane and transferred from prison to a mental asylum. There, he continued to write, and staged plays with inmates as actors. His writing career ended in 1809, when de Sade was transfered to solitary confinement, and deprived of pen and paper.
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Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading
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Balfour, Patrick, Lord Kinross – Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (1977)
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Cracked – 5 Historic Figures Who Would Definitely be Banned From Tinder
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Daily Sabbah, August 7th, 2015 – The History of Fratricide in the Ottoman Empire
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