Seven dialogues featuring three debauchees: the voluptuous Sainte-Ange, the ardent Eugénie and the cynical Dolmancé. Sade hijacks the form of philosophical dialogue in vogue in the eighteenth century, in favour of libertinism. He also used the occasion to develop his conception of republican government, which he considered incompatible with religion and with all forms of penal legislation.
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