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SUMMARY:Sex comes to the Bastille: the Marquis de Sade and the French Revolution
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 Presented by Dr. Ronen Steinberg (History)\n
 On 
 July 3 1789, a little after midnight, several 
 men entered a cell in the infamous prison of 
 the Bastille and snatched a prisoner who was 
 sleeping there. They hurled him into a coach 
 waiting nearby and drove him, naked, to the 
 insane asylum at Charenton. This prisoner was 
 the Marquis de Sade. Ten days later, the people 
 of Paris would storm the Bastille in one 
 of the most memorable days in modern history, 
 thus beginning, in effect, the French Revolution. 
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 This talk examines the relationship 
 between the Marquis de Sade and the French Revolution. 
 As a nobleman, he was suspect. As the 
 author of scandalous works, he had a good 
 chance of ending up on the guillotine. Yet as 
 a committed troublemaker, he must have loved 
 the glimpse of anarchy that the Revolution afforded 
 to contemporaries. In this talk, we will 
 follow the Marquis' multiple brushes with 
 the Revolution. We will examine what he thought 
 about its politics. And we will look for 
 the traces of its dramas and disappointments 
 in his writings.\n
 Cosponsored by: Romance and 
 Classical Studies, The Laurence Porter Colloquium 
 Series\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Main Library Green Room (W444)
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