A Black Sun: The Philosophy and Psychology of Marquis De Sade

Question 1

What time period was Sade born in?

Answer 1

18th century.
1740-1814 into old provenance aristocracy

Question 2

Sade’s mother being a lady in waiting to a princess lead to him?

Answer 2

Spending the first four years of his life as a companion to a young prince Louis Joseph

Question 3

Why is Sade banashied at four years old?

Answer 3

Sade beats up the young prince

Question 4

When does Sade marry and what occurs later that year?

Answer 4

Sade marries in 1763 at 23 and later ends up in prison that year for committing sacrilegious acts with a prostitute involving an ivory statue of christ.

No real repercussions for aristocrats

Question 5

What marks the beginning of Sade as a myth?

Answer 5

The exaggerated retelling of an orgy in Marseilles with four prostitutes and his manservant.
It goes awry after the women fall violently ill after consuming chocolate coated Spanish fly and he is accused of homosexual sodomy

Question 6

What is Sade’s relationship to his mother in law?

Answer 6

Sade’s mother in law initially tried covering for Sade like when he uses a cat of nine tails to whip a prostitute before pouring wax in (Rose Keller)

However, over the winter of 1744-1745, Sade and his wife have young servants aged 15-20 whom were flogged and prevented from returning home until wounds were healed

Sade’s mother in law has had enough and gets another letter signed by king ordering Sade’s immediate imprisonment. Spends next 13 years in prison.