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{{wikipediainfo}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a book written by [[Marquis de Sade| | {{wikipediainfo}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' was a book written by the [[Marquis de Sade]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)|The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | ||
He began writing it in [[1783]] while imprisoned in the [[Vincennes]] dungeons, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') where he was known only as "Monsieur le 6". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)|The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'', ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') In the alternate Paris of the [[World Machine]], de Sade feared that the published version of ''Les 120 Journées de Sodome'' was much weaker than his lost original draft. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)|The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'') | |||
The book described an endless list of [[sex]]ual perversions, which the Monsieur attributed to the corrupt rulers of [[France]]. While his contemporaries regarded it as the "most blasphemous, bloodthirsty work of [[pornography]] ever written", later generations appreciated it as the first work of clinical psychosexuality. | |||
It was published in the same year as, and invited comparison with, the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s book ''[[The Ruminations of a Foreign Traveller in His Element]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') | |||
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