Abstract
might first evoke figures of libertine executioners, the cruel despots of the Marquis's tales (Saint-Fond, Noirceuil, Blangis, Brisa-Testa) or figures of massacring courtesans (Juliette, Clairwil, Olympe, Mme Durand). Such a conjunction might also evoke the extraordinary meeting between a man and a historic moment, between a writing and an event: Sade left the Bastille on 4 July 1789 because of the riot, later became an active militant of the Revolution, was imprisoned during the Terror for being a moderate, and barely escaped being guillotined himself. Hence the following question: between libertine terror, such as that described by the writer of 120 Days of Sodom, and the revolutionary Terror, is there something upon which to reflect, is there a conjunction that would not be accidental but indeed essential?1 This relation has often been evoked. But most of the time it has been
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