Two hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, King Louis XVI of France lost his head. His execution by guillotine was a precursor of the Reign of Terror, a 10-month period from 1793 to 1794 when ...

Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, who died in a lunatic asylum in 1814 at the age of 74, has long been reviled because of the sexual abuse, rape, bestiality, torture and slaughter that fill his ...

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