Karthik Shashidhar

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In 1793 – following his improbable election as president of a local committee in Paris – Sade had issued instructions to his fellow citizens that they should all paint slogans on their houses: ‘Unity, Indivisibility of the Republic, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’.38 Sade himself, though, was no more a Jacobin than he was a priest.
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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