Joel Warner

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · The Depravity of the Marquis De Sade · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

I think the child died soon after.

She did write certain letters to Saad railing against her own family and decrying her love for her husband.

Now, with all these accounts, I think you have to factor in

how little autonomy and power women, even aristocratic women, had at this time, right?

I'm not saying she's innocent, but for us to frame her as this kind of Bonnie and Clyde duo, where she had just as much authority, I don't think that would be fair.

So they went and brought all these servants up to their chateau, locked them away for the winter.

And not long after, rumors of really sketchy things started emerging in the local community.

And some women kind of ran away.

There were later accounts of the bones of victims being buried in the garden of the chateau.

So once again, it was as if Saad had almost expanded his abuse to almost theatrical proportions into this kind of coordinated event.

And this will actually emerge back in his writing as well.

What brings him down is his mother-in-law.

Where at this point, she's like, okay, I'm done.

I'm washing my hands.

I have a feeling seducing his young, beautiful sister-in-law was probably part of the equation.

Right?

That probably wasn't great.

So she goes back to her friend, the king.

And she's like, okay, I need you to work up another one of your letters to cachet because it wouldn't do well for us to have a big public trial on all of this.

So I just want you to lock this guy up and throw away the key.

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