Histoire secrète d'Isabelle de Bavière, reine de France

by Marquis de Sade

C'est en 1764 que le marquis de Sade découvrit à Dijon, au couvent des Chartreux, les antiques parchemins qui devaient lui permettre, cinquante années plus tard, de répandre une lumière nouvelle sur le rôle d'agent suprême tenu par Isabelle de Bavière dans les événements sanglants de son époque. Il faut dire que cette reine, préfiguration de Juliette et de Lady Clairwill, réunissait dans sa personne toutes les conditions propres à exalter l'imagination du jeune marquis : elle était belle, elle régnait, la cruauté faisait ses délices et le nombre de ses amants égalait celui de ses crimes."Le crime se trompe quelquefois dans ses calculs et ce qu'on croit obtenir de lui n'est bien souvent que des remords. Puisse cette vérité se graver dans l'âme de tous les méchants qui veulent le commettre, oui, puisse-t-elle s'y imprimer à jamais autant pour leur propre repos que pour celui de leurs malheureuses victimes."

Genres: Biography

350 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1813

About the author

A preoccupation with sexual violence characterizes novels, plays, and short stories that Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade but known as marquis de Sade, of France wrote. After this writer derives the word sadism, the deriving of sexual gratification from fantasies or acts that involve causing other persons to suffer physical or mental pain.

This aristocrat, revolutionary politician, and philosopher exhibited famous libertine lifestyle.

His works include dialogues and political tracts; in his lifetime, he published some works under his own name and denied authorship of apparently anonymous other works. His best erotic works combined philosophical discourse with pornography and depicted fantasies with an emphasis on criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. Morality, religion or law restrained not his "extreme freedom." Various prisons and an insane asylum incarcerated the aristocrat for 32 years of his life: ten years in the Bastile, another year elsewhere in Paris, a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French revolution, people elected this criminal as delegate to the National Convention. He wrote many of his works in prison.

Reviews

[Ana Cristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

“O hábito de fazer mal apaga a vergonha de o ter concebido, a constância na perversidade é o nec plus ultra da miséria humana. Esse estado de coisas quase faria duvidar da dignidade da nossa existência, se não fosse provável ser ele um dos meios de que Deus se serve para nos punir e humilhar.”

[Lightwhisper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Um livro biográfico sobre a rainha Dona Isabel, uma história de intrigas, traições e assassínios.

[Sengoku Hiro]

22/5/2021
Cuando Sade escribió una novela que retrataba a una monarca del siglo XII como Cersei Lannister... con resultados nada favorables.
Apenas entendía lo que estaba pasando.