To: Spyder
True story. Gilles de Rais was the "Marquis de Sade", from whence we get our modern word "sadism", for sexual cruelty. This guy did deserve all the torture the Inqusition could muster - too bad they gave him the easy out.
17 posted on
05/12/2003 2:40:36 PM PDT by
egarvue
(Martin Sheen is not my president...)
To: egarvue
Gilles de Rais was the "Marquis de Sade"Check again - the sources I find separate them by several centuries. I did find a few comments that de Rais was also known as "Bluebeard."
20 posted on
05/12/2003 2:56:37 PM PDT by
Spyder
(Just another day in Paradise)
To: egarvue
But then again, they were both French (grin).
21 posted on
05/12/2003 2:57:10 PM PDT by
Spyder
(Just another day in Paradise)
To: windcliff
Uh-oh. Gilles de Rais bump.
25 posted on
05/12/2003 3:08:04 PM PDT by
onedoug
To: egarvue
I believe Gille de Rais was Bluebeard.
The Marquis de Sade was something of a pain, but I don't think he had descended into kiddy murder yet.
The old Pied Piper doesn't sound like the sort of chap you'd want living next door to the grammar school - whoever he was !
Another " sweet thing" was a Hungarian, named Elizabeth, who was Countess of Bathory. Some helpful beauty advisor - sort of an early version of the Avon Lady - told her bathing in the blood of virgin girls would keep her forever young - especially if she seduced them first. Unlike her spiritual descendent - the former Attorney General - she didn't get voted out of her unique "office" : the powers that be held a " bonfire of the vanities ", with her as the centerpiece.
29 posted on
05/12/2003 4:13:33 PM PDT by
genefromjersey
(Flatulence-Enabled Senior)
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