Sadeian women
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Rose Keller
On April 3rd, 1768, Easter Day Rose Keller is picked up by the Marquis de Sade and taken back to a house in Arcueil, where she was bound and flogged.
Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil
Renée Pélagie de Montreuil (December 3, 1741 - July 7, 1810) was the wife of Marquis de Sade.
Described as "a plain and uneducated young aristocrat, raised in fear of God, when she was married on May 17, 1763 to the Marquis de Sade by her unscrupulous parents. He already was a libertine and atheist. Yet, from the day they met, Renée Pélagie fell passionately in love with her husband and devoted herself totally to him. It's Sade's first and only marriage. Renée's 10-year-younger sister Anne-Prospère de Launay, became his mistress with her blessing eight years later."
Constance Quesnet
August 25, 1790 - Sade meets Marie-Constance Quesnet, age 33, a former actress, abandoned by her husband. Sade's relationship with her and with her six-year old son Charles will last the rest of Sade's life.
Sade dedicates Justine to her.
Anne-Prospère de Launay
Anne-Prospère de Launay (December 27, 1751 - May 13, 1781) was the sister-in-law of Marquis de Sade.
In the autumn of 1771 Anne-Prospère left her convent to make her home with the de Sades and their children after which Sade began an affair with her.
She wrote the passionate letter, written in blood « Je jure à M. le marquis de Sade, mon amant, de n’être jamais qu’à lui. … de ne jamais ni ne me marier, ni me donner à d’autres, de lui être fidèlement attachée, tant que le sang dont je me sers pour sceller ce serment coulera dans mes veines. Je lui fais le sacrifice de ma vie, de mon amour et de mes sentiments, avec la même ardeur que je lui ai fait celui de ma virginité. (…) »).
This letter was kept by Sade, transmitted to his descendents and discovered and published in 2006 by Maurice Lever among three other letters by the young lady.
On May 10 1781 Lady Anne de Launay falls ill with smallpox, the first signs of the disease appearing on Thursday evening. On May 13 she dies at 1:00 p.m.
Jeanne Testard
On October 18, 1765 the Marquis de Sade offered the 20 year old pregnant Testard 2 gold louis to go home with him. In his bedroom he asked the young woman if she believed in God, Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Marie-Dorothée de Rousset
Joseph-François de Rémerville sa petite-nièce Marie-Dorothée de Rousset (1744-1784), dite Milli, fut l'ambiguë amie du Marquis de Sade et de son épouse Renée-Pélagie.
Madame de Montreuil
Madame de Montreuil (1741 – 1810) was the Marquis de Sade's mother-in-law. She obtained multiple lettres de cachet to ensure de Sade's continuous imprisonment in the Bastille and Charenton.
Mademoiselle Beauvoisin
Mademoiselle Beauvoisin was a dancer. She met the Marquis de Sade on April 26, 1765. She was one month pregnant when they became lovers. The affair ended on January 3, 1766.
Marguerite Coste
- Marguerite Coste was a 25-year-old prostitute when on Saturday evening June 27, 1772 she met the Marquis Sade in her Marseilles apartment. The Marquis offered her several pastilles from his crystal candy box. After a few moments he asked the prostitute to lie face down on the bed so that he could lick her bottom and she could fart into his mouth. She declined his request to sodomize her and after "amusing himself with her person" the Marquis paid her six francs and left. Ms. Coste spent the next week vomiting and suffering from severe stomach pain. Apparently Sade had dosed his candy with cantharis ("Spanish Fly") and Ms. Coste (among several other prostitutes visited by the Marquis) got violently ill. Ms. Coste eventually recovered but not before she set in motion the wheels of justice over the Marquis. On December 8, 1772 Sade was arrested in Italy in connection with what has become known as the "Marseilles Affair."[1]
