That constituted most of Sade's adult life? What crimes are hidden behind the prison walls, behind the asylum walls, behind the grotesque mask of evil that most people imagine when they try to picture the Marquis de What caused the series of imprisonment-release-imprisonment He lived to be seventy-four, but he spent almost twenty-nine years of his adulthood in various prisons and at the insane asylum at Charenton. It is inevitable that one comes to picture Sade behind walls. They protect are a perfect emblem of the castle's former owner. Even as ruins, the thick stone walls are magnificent. Now the inside is a hollow, open to the pale, intense heat of the Provencal sky. Suggest the life that once animated these rooms. Inside, the floors and ceilings have long since fallen, although there are hints-a bit of fancy molding here, a touch of antique and faded paint there-to Had been the Marquis de Sade's chateau of La Coste. On the brow stand the jagged stone walls of the ruin that once The small, picturesque village of La Coste rises steeply through very narrow cobbled streets and cubist stone houses attached to the face of one of the hills in the Luberon range of Provence.
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