Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation

1. Son and Heir

2. Love and Marriage

3. Scandalous Debauch

4. In the Flames of Passion

5. The Arcueil Affair

6. Fatal Passion

7. Marseilles

8. In Prison at Miolans

9. Wolf-Man

10. Italy

11. The Shot

12. Vincennes-House of Silence

13. A Surprise at Aix

14. The Golden Dawn of a Beautiful Day

15. Vincennes, Again

16. Signals

17. Sex in Prison

18. The Visit

19. Writer

20. The Bastille

21. Sodom

22. The Revolution

23. "Amidst Madmen and Epileptics"

24. "Free at Last"

25. Citizen Sade

26. The Guillotine Beneath Our Windows

27. On My Knees, Dying of Hunger

28. Charenton

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Neil Schaeffer is Professor of English Literature at Brooklyn College.