Place des Prêcheurs
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Place des Prêcheurs is a square in Aix-en-Provence
On September 12, 1772, Sade and his servant Latour are executed in effigy on the Place des Prêcheurs, as a result from the verdict of the Marguerite Coste affair. This lead to Sade's civic death.
Sade and Latour at that time were in Italy (see Sade in Italy). They were able to flee France and Sade took his sister-in-law Anne-Prospère de Launay with him, with whom he had an affair. Sade's mother-in-law never forgave him for this. She obtained a lettre de cachet for his arrest (a royal order by which an individual could be arrested and imprisoned without stated cause and without access to the courts).
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