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The most shocking ones are notorious: After having escaped from the hands of numerous libertines, the virtuous Justine is struck by lightning.

Sades literary universe, usually renowned as one of torture and pain, does not exclude peaceful death.

As his biographers tell us, he wasnt spared the ailments of old age and even suffered violent pain during the days preceding his death on 2 December 1814.

In his testament, signed in 1806, Sade stipulates that his corpse should be buried on his property of Malmaison southwest of Paris.

The instructions to the undertaker have something deeply theatrical and seem keen on capturing attention rather than erasing memory.

Unsurprisingly, the last sentence from the testament is one of the favourite quotes in Sade studies.

A conference in Amsterdam, organized by Gert Hekma and Lode Lauwaert, will investigate Sades impact on contemporary ideas of sexuality.

On the eve of the bicentenary day, Nicholas Cronk and I will present our recent edited volume Sade, linconnu at Oxford.

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