Sade
Subtitle: A Biographical Essay
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780226064215
First sentence: Mysterious mother? All of the marquis' biographers insist on the point: "What we know about the comtesse de Sade can be said in two pages," writes Jean-Jacques Pauvert in a three-volume biography that devotes more than seventeen hundred pages of text and notes to an engrossing account of the life of Marie-Eleonore's notorious son.