Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

another order was issued for his arrest. He again escaped. After afew weeks, he again returned to Lacoste. Renee-Pelagie filed acomplaint against her mother, probably in the hope that thispressure would encourage Madame de Montreuil to use herinfluence to have the charges against Sade dropped. Despite thecomplaint against Madame de Montreuil, a new warrant was issuedfor Sade’s arrest. He went into hiding, then returned again toLacoste. Renee-Pelagie continued to try to have her motherarrested. Her efforts were rewarded with a promise from highgovernment officials that an appeal would be presented in theparliament to cancel Sade’s sentence. This would then lead toinvalidation of the lettre de cachet (an order from the king that a givenperson be imprisoned without trial and with no predeterminedsentence) that had also been issued against Sade.Sade, with an end to his legal troubles in sight, intensified hispursuit of pleasure. He had a procuress known as Nanon find himfive fifteen-year-old girls who were taken to Lacoste and forced tosubmit to Sade’s brutality. Sade’s wife was a participant in thesenew sexual extravaganzas. She became the prime apologist forSade’s violence against the girls, even though, as one of themtestified, Renee-Pelagie was herself “the first victim of a fury whichcan be described only as madness. ” 3 Parents of three of the girlspressed charges against Sade, who refused to release his captives.One of the girls was horribly injured. She was sent to Sade’s uncle,the Abbe, to keep her from testifying against Sade. Renee-Pelagiedid everything possible to keep a doctor from treating the girl, sinceevidence of bodily injury could be used against Sade and herself aswell. Madame de Montreuil, perhaps to protect her daughter,joined with Renee-Pelagie and Sade to try to coerce the parents intodropping their complaints. Meanwhile, Sade forcibly kept the girlsat Lacoste. They would be returned to their parents only if nocharges of kidnapping were made.Sade brought more women and girls to Lacoste. Human boneswere found in Sade’s garden; he claimed one of his mistresses hadplanted them as a joke. Nanon, the procuress, became pregnant bySade. Madame de Montreuil had a lettre de cachet issued for her