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He was born into privilege but walked straight into darkness. The man who gave his name to sadism, the Marquis de Sade was more than just a libertine—he was a storm of perversion, philosophy, and pure chaos.

Aristocrat. Writer. Monster. Prophet of a world stripped of morality.

Sade had a strange, sinister talent: the power to corrupt. Those around him—servants, lovers, even jailers—were drawn into his orbit and dragged into his twisted games. He was too depraved for the monarchy, too dangerous for the revolutionaries, and too uncontainable for Napoleon himself. Time and again, he was locked away—yet he wrote on, filling pages with feverish visions of cruelty, freedom, and domination.

On the day he was to be executed, Robespierre simply wasn’t in the mood. That mood swing saved Sade’s neck—and condemned generations to confront his disturbing legacy.

In this chilling episode, Keith dives into the life of the Marquis de Sade: his perverse genius, his endless imprisonment, and the questions that still burn—was he a madman, a martyr, or the first philosopher of total control?

This isn’t just biography. It’s a descent into the abyss.

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