I Am Fascinated By The Marquis De Sade

I think the works of the Marquis are commentaries on what was happening in the society of the Ancien Regime just before the Révolution and are misconceived as something he advocated instead of reported in his way upon. The aristocracy had the freedom to do anything they wished, and the people were well aware, and often their victims were behind the eventual Terror which was a consequence of the regime change sought.

If De Sade was acting as a reporter in his books should his name be associated as it is with the life styles he was talking about, might be a debate in itself.