Rose Keller
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The Rose Keller affair[1] is one of the Marquis de Sade 's first major scandals. On April 3rd, 1768, Easter Day Rose Keller is picked up by the Marquis de Sade and taken back to a cottage in Arcueil, where she was bound and flogged. She escaped by climbing out of a second-floor window and running away.
Whether Keller was a prostitute or not is widely disputed. He was accused of imprisoning her against her will and sexually and physically abusing her.
Aftermath
It was at this time that la Présidente, Sade's mother-in-law, obtained a lettre de cachet from the king, excluding Sade from the jurisdiction of the courts. The lettre de cachet (a royal order of arrest and imprisonment, without stated cause or access to the courts) would later prove disastrous for the marquis.
Subsequently, Sade is incarcerated at the château de Saumur, and after that in the Pierre-Encise prison.
Keller is given money. The case is brought before court in June, Sade is acquitted in November but is told to retire on his estate in La Coste.
Fictional respresentations
In the 1969 American film De Sade (directed by Cy Endfield), Rose Keller is played by Uta Levka.
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