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unusual facts about The Marquis de Sade



Private Case

The collection contains works by notable figures in the world of written erotica including The Earl of Rochester, The Marquis de Sade and William Simpson Potter.


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The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade," or "Marat/Sade" a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes".

The Skull

In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis.