Name: The Secret History of Isabella of Bavaria (Taynaya Istoriya Izabelly)
Brand: AST
SKU: 9086092050734
Price: 14.03 GBP
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Author: Markiz de Sad
ISBN: 9785171572044

The Secret History of Isabella of Bavaria (Taynaya Istoriya Izabelly)

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The final novel by the most controversial French writer of the 18th century, the Marquis de Sade. In 1764, the Marquis de Sade discovered documents in the Chartres monastery in Dijon that allowed him to shed light on the life story of one of the most controversial women of the Middle Ages: Queen Isabella of Bavaria, wife of the mad king Charles VI. An eccentric, cruel ruler who loved the pleasures of the flesh and art, yet in her own way a very realistic ruler who advocated for an eternal union between France and England…

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Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, who entered history as the Marquis de Sade (Fr. marquis de Sade), was a French writer, aristocrat, and philosopher. He was a proponent of absolute freedom, one that would not be limited by morality, religion, or law, and he regarded the possibility of attaining the highest personal pleasure as the fundamental value of life.

From his name, sexual gratification obtained by causing pain or humiliation to another person received the name sadism (in the works of sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing;…

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