Le sisteme c'est bien rellement et bien incontestablement la baze de ma philosophie et j'en suis sectateur jusquau martir sil le fallait
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… le sisteme c'est bien rellement et bien incontestablement la baze de ma philosophie et j'en suis sectateur jusquau martir sil le fallait … is a quote from one of Sade's letters.
- He [Sade] famously wrote to his wife from prison that he would defend d’Holbach’s Système de la nature “jusqu’au martir s’il le fallait” [to martyrdom if necessary] (Marquis de Sade, Lettres à sa femme, p.427). For the vast array of his tacit references, quotations and textual echoes, see Michel Delon’s superb annotated edition of 44Sade’s Œuvres44 (Paris:Gallimard Pleiade, 1990-1998), 3 vols. There are also numerous explicit marks of his affiliation : one such is as follows: “Aimable La Mettrie, profond Helvétius, sage et savant Montesquieu, pourquoi donc, si pénétrés de cette vérité, n’avez-vous fait que l’indiquer dans vos livres divins ?” [Amiable La Mettrie, deep Helvétius, wise and erudite Montesquieu, why, penetrated by the truth as you were, did you merely trace it in your divine books?]. Histoire de Juliette, ed. Delon, vol. 3, p.334. Jean Deprun uses exactly this passage to retrace Sade’s explicit borrowings, see “Sade et le rationalisme des lumières,” Raison Présente 3 (mai-juillet 1967) : 85. See also Caroline Warman, “Sade and the jewels of virtue : Sade’s claim to the legacy of materialism,” Sade and his legacy, ed. John Phillips, Paragraph 23:1(March 2000), pp.87-97[1]
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