{"title":"Chapter I","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The testament of Louis XIII, which established a Regency council, annulled by a Court of Justice* decree according to the wishes of Anne of Austria, that monarch’s widow; the investiture of this Princess as Regent for an indefinite period; the war which obliged the Regent to arm the French against Philippe, her brother, whom she nonetheless loved very dearly (a disastrous war, which had endured for the last thirteen years); the Regent’s choice of Mazarin, who held sway over both this sovereign and all of France; the civil war, an inevitable result of discord, or of boundless ambition among ministers; the dangerous ongoing conflict between the Courts of Justice and the supreme ruler; the arbitrary arrests of Noviac, Chardon, Broussel, etc., carried out and resisted with shots fired, and which left Paris bristling with barricades on that fateful day in which the Cardinal de Retz took such brazen pride;* the court’s retreat to Saint-Germain,* where everyone slept on straw; the nonage of Louis XIV, who at the time was only eleven years of age; all these calamitous circumstances offered a less than serene prospect for the early days of the marriage which Mademoiselle de Rossan, daughter of one of the wealthiest gentlemen of Avignon, contracted in 1649 with the Comte de Castellane, son of the Duc de Villars.","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124485700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter XII","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"The devout Marquise de Gange, for whom all religious duties had become genuine pleasures, was at the Saint-Agricole parish one day, fulfilling one of those sacred acts by which men and women, with the guidance of the clergy, see before their very eyes the divine mystery of the eternal alliance that, for man’s salvation, the son of the Almighty himself willingly contracted with his Holy Father. An ineffable sacrifice no doubt, as that celestial Being condescends to appear before those he saved in a crude form which, far from diminishing the merit of such a solemn humiliation, renders it all the more noble and sublime for the pure soul who appreciates it.","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126564156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter VI","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"‘What a deceitful creature!’ Alphonse said to his brother, as soon as they were alone. ‘How well she feigns religion, virtue, decency, and how well her face, with its air of sweetness, fools people all the more! But one can discern, in those seductive features, the mask of hypocrisy — I must have been blind not to recognize it straight away. Oh, how I would pity men, if all women resembled this one.’\u0000‘My friend,’ said Théodore, ‘I fear you were too hasty; I advised prudence, and you listened only to your passions. What are we going to do now? A dead man! A guilty woman!’","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Author’s Preface","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This is no novel we are offering here: the awful truth of the events we are to describe may be found in the Causes célèbres.* All Europe reverberated with the news of this lamentable episode. Did everyone not shudder when they...","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123170065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter II","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Some of the local nobility, along with the most prominent burghers of the town of Gange, were gathered at the castle to pay tribute to the young couple.\u0000The lady who had won the approval of the whole court had little difficulty in earning the approbation of the province. Everyone admired her beauty, her sweetness, the consummate ease with which she expressed herself, and above all the precious and rare elegance with which she addressed one and all on matters that might interest them or flatter their pride.\u0000The true spirit of sociability is to allow others to shine; and as one can only do so by sacrificing oneself, there are few people in the world who feel capable of making such an effort.","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123464954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter VIII","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The watchful Abbé realized that, just as the mother knew her daughter was at the castle, it would become very difficult to prevent the daughter hearing of her mother’s arrival. Could he really count on Rose to keep such a secret? Are criminal accomplices not always dangerous? There were signs that Rose had a kind heart and affection for her mistress. Nothing could be more alarming than these hints of virtue to someone plotting a crime; and the imperious manner in which Nature thus reasserts its laws should be enough to stop all those who seek to break them.","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"472 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122815000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter V","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"It is difficult to describe the Marquis’s surprise when, upon his return to Gange, he found neither Villefranche nor his wife. The Abbé, though better informed, feigned the same astonishment as his brother, and all and sundry seemed dismayed.\u0000‘We have been tricked,’ the Marquis said to Théodore. ‘The two of them are on the run, and it was to throw us off the scent that they had people say the coach they hired in Beaucaire was taking them to Gange. Oh, the cruel situation in which this poor woman and I now find ourselves! She thinks me guilty, and I am convinced she is too. However, I want to find out more — love and pride demand that much.’","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115357756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter IV","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"As his first plan of attack posed some risks, Théodore sensed that it was essential to launch the second sooner rather than later, and the next day he visited the Marquis in his quarters.\u0000‘I am glad, my dear Abbé, that you stole a march on me,’ Alphonse told him. ‘I have something to tell you which weighs heavily on my heart.’\u0000‘I cannot imagine so,’ Alphonse told him. ‘That is why I shall take you into my confidence. Until recently, my dear brother, I always thought myself the most fortunate and the most tranquil of husbands, but I fear now my happiness is under threat.’","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128253553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter IX","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.9783/9781512801514-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801514-011","url":null,"abstract":"The day after Madame de Gange’s arrival in Avignon, the three brothers went to pay her a first visit. The Marquis conducted himself marvellously well: self-interest, at this point, spoke to him more loudly than any other feelings he harboured in his heart.\u0000‘A thousand of the most sincere apologies, Madame,’ said Alphonse, ‘if all that the violence of my love has brought you is misfortune. How is one to guard against jealousy when one is in love with someone of such beauty? We were deceived by the tricks, the ruses, of a hothead whom I can only despise even as I remember him now, for he is the one I hold responsible for all my injustices towards you. Is it too much to hope that my remorse might in time efface my wrongs?’","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128270535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter X","authors":"Marquis de Sade","doi":"10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198848288.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"With such a vivid imagination, and such recent memories of her woes, it is not difficult to imagine the distressing reflections to which Madame de Gange succumbed. How many sighs came from her oppressed heart . . . how many tears drenched her cheeks as she contemplated her terrible plight! Cruelly agitated, she wandered around this great chamber, unable to discern its dimensions, when she thought she spied a small door ajar. It was still night, and the room was lit only by some faint and fleeting beams from a pale moon constantly hidden by the squalling clouds. She flies to this door . . . misfortune grasps wildly at anything that chance presents: a spluttering lamp reveals a glimpse of a chamber on the other side of the door; she enters . . . But what hideous object greets her eyes! There on a table before her, she sees an open cadaver, almost entirely ripped asunder, on which the castle surgeon had just been working . . . for this is his laboratory. Euphrasie recoils with a bloodcurdling scream. She loses her way, stumbles . . . only terror is keeping her alive; were it not for the intense agitation making her heart pound she would die . . . But there is no way out . . . no means of escape left; and without her so much as touching it, the door by which she entered this terrible place closes behind her.","PeriodicalId":383848,"journal":{"name":"The Marquise de Gange","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128336102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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