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To: elhombrelibre

Wasn't M. de Sade a prisoner there then, my memory is hazy?


136 posted on 01/18/2005 12:45:38 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: razorback-bert

He was transffered from the Bastille to Charenton a couple of weeks before the Storming. Apparently he just escaped the guillotine during the Reign of Terror by writing an admiring eulogy of Marat.


140 posted on 01/18/2005 12:55:57 PM PST by Borges
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To: razorback-bert

No, I'm certain he was not there. I suppose a quick web search on him would confirm it, but I am absolutely certain he was not there. The people there were ordinary criminals.


164 posted on 01/18/2005 2:19:09 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Liberalism is proof that intelligent people can ignore as much as the ignorant.)
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