Word: sade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jean Frenchman and the foremost criminologists of France have followed for exactly a year (TIME, Jan. 18, Feb. 1, 1926) the astounding trial at Melun concerning a cult whose members revived at Bordeaux the sorceries of the Middle Ages and the flaggellant rites invented by the infamous "Marquis de Sade...
Throughout France the lash is by no means entirely taboo, either as a subject for the profuse disquisitions of literary flagellants, or as a means of provoking those alleged pleasures and undoubted pains which were erected into a system by the notorious Count Donatien Alphonse François Sade (1740-1814), the so-called "Marquis de Sade...