PART THE SECOND
THE 150 COMPLEX PASSIONS, OR THOSE BELONGING TO THE SECOND CLASS, COMPOSING 
THE THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF DECEMBER SPENT IN HEARING THE NARRATIONS OF MADAME 
CHAMPVILLE; INTERSPERSED AMONGST WHICH ARE THE SCANDALOUS DOINGS AT THE 
CHÂTEAU DURING THAT MONTH; ALL BEING SET DOWN IN THE FORM OF A JOURNAL. 
(DRAFT) 
 
    THE 1ST OF DECEMBER: Champville assumes the task of storytelling and 
relates the one hundred and fifty following tales (the number of each 
precedes the tale). 
    1. Won't depucelate any save those aged between three and seven, but 
only cuntishly. 'Tis he who deflowers Champville at the age of five. 
    2. He ties a girl of nine in a curled-up position and depucelates her 
from behind. 
    3. He wishes to rape a girl of twelve or thirteen, and depucelates her 
while holding a pistol against her heart. 
    4. He likes to frig a man upon a maiden's cunt, he uses the fuck for 
pomade, and next encunts the maid while she is held by the man. 
    5. He wishes to depucelate three girls in succession, one in the 
cradle, one at the age of five, the other at seven. 
    THE 2ND. 6. He'll not depucelate anyone who is not between nine years 
old and thirteen. His prick is enormous; four women are needed to hold the 
virgin. The same individual Martaine speaks of, who only embuggers three-
year-olds, the same hell-inspired individual. 
    7. He has his valet depucelate the maid, aged ten to twelve, before his 
eyes, and during the operation touches them nowhere save upon the ass. He 
now fondles the girl's, now the valet's. Discharges upon the valet's ass. 
    8. He wishes to depucelate a girl destined to be married the following 
day. 
    9. He wishes the marriage to be performed, and to depucelate the bride 
at some time between the hour of the mass and the moment the couple retires 
to bed. 
    10. He would have his valet, a very ingenious personage, go about 
marrying girls left and right and bring them to his master, who therewith 
fucks them, and next sells them to procuresses. 
    THE 3RD. 11. He must be provided with two sisters; he depucelates them. 
    12. He marries the girl, depucelates her, but 'tis all a fraud, the 
marriage is a fraud, once he's fucked her, he leaves her. 
    13. He will only fuck a maid, and then only immediately after another 
man has deflowered her while he has watched. He must have her cunt muddied 
up with sperm. 
    14. This one depucelates with an artificial engine, very large, and, 
without introducing himself, discharges upon the hole he has cleared. 
    15. He will have none but maids of rank and distinction and pays for 
them in accordance with their wealth. This individual proves to be the Duc, 
who will admit having depucelated more than fifteen hundred of them over a 
period of thirty years. 
    THE 4TH. 16. He forces a brother to fuck his sister in his presence, 
then fucks her afterward; he obliges both to shit before-hand. 
    17. He forces a father to fuck his daughter after he has himself had 
her maidenhead. 
    18. He brings his nine-year-old daughter to the brothel, and while she 
is held by a procuress, depucelates her. He has had twelve daughters; has 
had all twelve maidenheads. 
    19. Must have virgins between the ages of thirty and forty to fuck. 
    20. He will depucelate no one but nuns, and spends immense sums of 
money to get them; he fucks several. 
    'Tis the evening of the 4th of December, at the orgies, the Duc 
depucelates Fanny, who is held by the four governesses and ministered by 
Duclos. He fucks her twice in a row, she faints, the second time he fucks 
her while she is unconscious. 
    THE 5TH. To celebrate the fifth week's festival, Hyacinthe and Fanny 
are joined in matrimony, the marriage is consummated very publicly. 
    21. He would have the mother hold her daughter, he first fucks the 
mother, then depucelates the daughter while she is held by the mother. The 
same one Desgranges mentions on the 20th of February. 
    22. He likes adultery only; one must locate women for him who are 
generally known to be virtuous and well behaved, he makes them disgusted 
with their husbands. 
    23. He enjoys having the husband come himself to prostitute his wife 
and hold her while he fucks her. (Messieurs imitate that passion 
forthwith.) 
    24. He places a married woman upon a bed, encunts her while that 
woman's daughter, suspended above, presents him with her cunt to be licked; 
the next instant he effects a reversal and encunts the daughter while 
kissing the mother's asshole. When he has done licking the daughter's cunt, 
he has her piss; then he kisses the mother's asshole and has her shit. 
    25. He has four daughters, legitimate and wedded; he wishes to fuck all 
four: he makes all four of them conceive and bear children so as someday to 
have the pleasure of depucelating the children he has had by his daughters 
and whom their husbands suppose to be their own. 
    Apropos of which the Duc recounts - but his anecdote cannot be numbered 
amongst the stories because, Messieurs being unable to duplicate it, it 
does not compose a passion - the Duc recounts, I say, that he once knew a 
man who fucked three children he had by his mother, amongst whom there was 
a daughter whom he had marry his son, so that in fucking her he fucked his 
sister, his daughter and his daughter-in-law, and thus he also constrained 
his son to fuck his own sister and mother-in-law. Curval recounts another 
unusual history, that of a brother and a sister who reached an agreement 
whereby each would surrender his children to the other: the sister had a 
boy and a girl, so did the brother. They mixed the pudding in such wise 
that sometimes they fucked their nephews, sometimes their own children, and 
sometimes their first cousins, or else the brothers and sister would fuck 
while the father and mother, that is to say, the brother and sister, fucked 
one another also. 
    That evening, Fanny is surrendered cuntwardly to the assembly, but as 
the Bishop and Monsieur Durcet do not fuck cunts, she is only fucked by 
Curval and the Duc. Henceforth, she wears a small ribbon aslant, like a 
baldric, and after the loss of both her pucelages she will wear a very wide 
pink ribbon. 
    THE 6TH. 26. He has himself frigged while a woman is being frigged 
about the clitoris, and he wishes to discharge at the same time the girl 
does, but he discharges upon the buttocks of the man who frigs the girl. 
    27. He kisses the asshole of one girl while a second girl frigs his ass 
and a third his prick; they then exchange tasks, so that, when all is said 
and done, each of the three has her ass kissed, each frigs his prick, each 
frigs his ass. Farts are required of them all. 
    28. He licks the cunt of one girl while fucking a second in the mouth 
and while his asshole is being licked by a third; then exchange of 
positions as above. The cunts must discharge, he swallows their balm. 
    29. He sucks a beshitted ass, has a tongue frig his own beshitted 
asshole, and frigs himself upon a beshitted ass; the three girls then 
exchange positions. 
    30. He has two girls frigged before his eyes, and alternately fucks the 
friggeresses from the rear, but in the cunt, while they continue with their 
sapphotizings. 
    Zephyr and Cupidon are upon that day discovered in the act of frigging 
each other, but they have not yet had recourse to reciprocal embuggery; 
they are punished. Fanny is much encunted at the orgies. 
    THE 7TH. 31. He would have an older girl introduce a younger girl to 
bad habits; the older must frig her, give her wicked advice, and end up by 
holding her while he fucks her, whether virgin or not. 
    32. He calls for four women; he fucks two of them orally, two 
cuntwardly, taking great care not to insert his prick in a mouth until 
having first had it in a cunt. While all this is going on, he is closely 
followed by a fifth woman, who throughout frigs his asshole with a dildo. 
    33. This libertine requires a dozen women, six young, six old and, if 
'tis possible, six of them should be mothers and the other six their 
daughters. He pumps out their cunts, asses and mouths; when applying his 
lips to the cunt, he wants copious urine; when at the mouth, much saliva; 
when at the ass, abundant farts. 
    34. He employs eight women to frig him; each of the eight must be 
situated in a different posture. (This had better be illustrated by a 
drawing.) 
    35. Wishes to have three men and three women fucking each other in 
divers attitudes. 
    THE 8TH. 36. He forms twelve groups of two girls each; they are so 
arranged only their asses are visible to him; all the rest of their bodies 
must be concealed from his sight. He frigs himself while studying all those 
buttocks. 
    37. He has six couples simultaneously frig themselves in a room paneled 
with mirrors; each couple is composed of two girls frigging each other in 
various and equally lubricious postures. He is in the middle of the room, 
he regards both the couples and their reflections, and discharges in the 
middle of it all, having been frigged by an old woman. He has kissed the 
buttocks of every participant in this drama. 
    38. He has four streetwalkers besot themselves with wine and then fight 
with each other while he looks on; and when they are thoroughly drunk, they 
one after another vomit into his mouth. He favors the oldest and ugliest 
women possible. 
    39. He has a girl shit in his mouth, but does not eat her turd, and 
while the first girl is in action, a second sucks his prick and frigs his 
ass; while discharging, he shits into the hand of the girl who is 
socratizing him. The girls exchange places. 
    40. He has a man shit into his mouth and eats while a little boy frigs 
him, then the man frigs him and he has the boy shit. 
    That evening, at the orgies, Curval depucelates Michette, in front: she 
is held by the four duennas and ministered by Duclos; this arrangement is 
the conventional one and is observed upon all occasions; therefore we will 
not allude to it again. 
    THE 9TH. 41. He fucks one girl in her mouth just after having shitted 
into the same receptacle; a second girl is lying on top of the first, with 
the first girl's head between her thighs, and upon the face of the second 
girl a third girl drops a turd, and he, while thus fucking his own turd in 
the first girl's mouth, eats the shit deposited by the third girl upon the 
second girl's face, and then they alternate roles, in such wise that each 
girl enacts all three of them. 
    42. Thirty girls pass through his hands during a given day, and he has 
them all shit into his mouth, consumes the turds of the three or four 
prettiest. He repeats this party five times a week, which means that he 
sees 7800 girls a year. When Champville first encounters him, he is seventy 
years old and has been in business for fifty. 
    43. He sees twelve girls every morning and swallows their dozen turds; 
he sees them all at the same time. 
    44. He places himself in a bathtub; thirty women come up one after 
another and piss and shit into it till it is full; he discharges while 
paddling about in all that. 
    45. He shits in the presence of four women, requires them to watch and 
indeed help deliver him of his turd; next, he wishes them to divide it into 
equal parts and eat it; then each woman does a turd of her own. He mixes 
them and swallows the entire batter, but his shit-furnishers have got to be 
women of at least sixty. 
    That evening Michette's cunt is put at the disposal of the assembly; 
thereafter she wears the little sash. 
    THE 10TH. 46. He has girls A and B shit. Then he forces B to eat A's 
turd, and A to eat B's. Then both A and B shit a second time; he eats both 
their turds. 
    47. He requires a mother and her three daughters, and he eats the 
girls' shit upon the mother's ass, and the mother's shit upon one 
daughter's ass. 
    48. He obliges a daughter to shit into her mother's mouth and to wipe 
her ass with her mother's teats; next, he eats the turd in the mother's 
mouth, and afterward has the mother shit into her daughter's mouth, whence, 
as before, he eats the turd. 
    (It would perhaps be advisable to substitute a son and a mother, in order to create a contrast with 47.) 
    49. He wishes a father to eat his son's turd, then he eats the 
father's. 
    50. He would have the brother shit in his sister's cunt, and he eats 
the turd; the sister then must shit in her brother's mouth. He eats this 
second turd, too. 
    THE 11TH. 51. Champville announces she is now going to speak of 
impieties, and makes mention of a man who wishes the whore, while frigging 
him, to pronounce dreadful blasphemies; in his turn he utters terrible 
ones. His amusement during their dialogue consists in kissing her ass; he 
does no more than that. 
    52. He would have a girl come with him to a church, and frig him there, 
especially at the time the holy sacrament is exposed. He situates himself 
as near to the altar as possible, and fondles her ass while she performs 
her task. 
    53. He goes to confession for the sole purpose of making his 
confessor's prick rise aloft; he lists a quantity of infamous misdeeds, and 
frigs himself in the confessional all the while he speaks. 
    54. He wishes the girl to go and make her confession, then fucks her 
orally the moment she emerges from the confessional. 
    55. He fucks a whore throughout a mass being said in his private 
chapel, and discharges when the Host is raised. 
    That evening, the Duc depucelates Sophie cuntwardly, and while doing so 
blasphemes considerably. 
    THE 12TH. 56. He buys a confessor, who yields him his place; thus he is 
able to hear the young pensionnaires' confessions and to give them the 
worst possible advice while pardoning them their sins. 
    57. He would have his daughter go to confess to a monk he has 
previously bribed, and he is placed where he can overhear everything; but 
the monk demands that the penitent keep her skirts raised high while she 
catalogues her faults, and her ass posted within plain sight of the father: 
thus he is able to hear his daughter's confession and contemplate her ass 
at the same time. 
    58. Has mass celebrated for completely naked whores; while observing 
the spectacle, he frigs his prick upon another girl's ass. 
    59. He has his wife go to confess to a monk he has bought: the monk 
seduces the wife and fucks her in front of her husband, who is hidden. If 
the wife refuses, he emerges from hiding and helps the monk force her. 
    On that day they celebrate the sixth week's festival with the marriage 
of Celadon and Sophie, which union is consummated, and in the evening 
Sophie's cunt is put generally to use, and she dons the sash. Because of 
this event only four passions are recounted on the 12th. 
    THE 13TH. 60. Fucks whores on the altar at the same moment mass is 
about to be said; they have their naked asses on the sacred stone. 
    61. He has a naked girl sit astride and bend forward over a large 
crucifix; he fucks her cunt from behind while she is thus crouched down in 
such wise the head of Christ frigs her clitoris. 
    62. He farts and has the whore fart in the chalice, he pisses thereinto 
and has her piss thereinto, he shits thereinto and has her shit thereinto, 
and finally he discharges into the chalice. 
    63. He has a small boy shit upon the paten, and he eats this while the 
boy sucks him. 
    64. He has two girls shit upon a crucifix, he shits thereupon when they 
have finished, and he is frigged against the three turds covering the 
idol's face. 
    THE 14TH. 65. He breaks up a crucifix, smashes several images of the 
Virgin and the Eternal Father, shits upon the debris and burns the whole 
mess. The same man has the mania of bringing a whore to hear the sermon and 
having himself frigged while listening to the word of God. 
    66. He takes communion and, the wafer still in his mouth, has four 
whores shit upon it. 
    67. He has her go to communion and fucks her in the mouth when she 
returns. 
    68. He interrupts a priest in the midst of saying mass in his private 
chapel, interrupts him, I say, in order to frig himself into the chalice, 
obliges the whore to frig the priest thereinto, and forces the latter to 
quaff the mead. 
    *Passion Number 69 omitted by Sade. -Tr. 
    70. He intervenes directly the Host is consecrated and forces the 
priest to fuck the whore with the Host. 
    Upon this day Augustine and Zelmire are found frigging together; they 
are both rigorously punished. 
    THE 15TH. 71. He has the girl fart upon the Host, himself farts 
thereupon, and then swallows the Host while fucking the whore. 
    72. The same man who had himself nailed into a coffin - Duclos 
mentioned him - compels the whore to shit upon the Host; he also shits upon 
it and flings the whole affair into a privy. 
    73. Frigs the whore's clitoris with the Host, has her discharge upon 
it, then buries it in her cunt and fucks her, discharging upon it in his 
turn. 
    74. Chops it up with a knife and has the crumbs rammed into his 
asshole. 
    75. Has himself frigged and then discharges upon the Host and finally, 
when he is restored to perfect calm and after his fuck has flowed, feeds 
biscuit and all to a dog. 
    The same evening, the Bishop consecrates a Host and Curval destroys 
Hebe's maidenhead with it, he drives it into her cunt and discharges 
thereupon. Several others are consecrated, and the already depucelated 
sultanas are all fucked with Hosts. 
    THE 16TH. Profanation, Champville announces, lately the principal 
element in her stories, will from now on be no more accessory, and what, to 
borrow the brothel term, are known as little ceremonies are going to 
provide the main ingredient in the following complex passions. She asks her 
auditors to remember that everything connected with that will be presented 
merely as secondary matter, but that the difference subsisting between her 
stories and the examples Duclos has given, is that Duclos always pictured a 
man with one woman, whereas she, Champville, will always show several women 
administering to a single man. 
    76. He has himself flogged by one girl during mass, he fucks a second 
girl orally, and he discharges when the Host is elevated. 
    77. He has two women gently flog his ass with a martinet; each woman 
bestows ten stripes, alternating them with asshole friggery. 
    78. He has himself whipped by four different girls while farts are 
being launched into his mouth: the girls take turns, so that each will have 
had a chance both to whip and to fart. 
    79. He has himself whipped by his wife while he fucks his daughter, 
next by his daughter while he fucks his wife; this is the same individual 
Duclos spoke of, the same man who prostituted his wife and daughter in her 
whorehouse. 
    80. He has himself whipped simultaneously by two girls, one flogs the 
front of him, the other his rear, and when at last he has been well 
stimulated, he fucks one of them while the other plies the lash, then the 
second while the first flogs him. 
    That same evening Hebe's cunt is made available to the public, and she 
wears the little sash, not being entitled to the large one until she has 
lost both her pucelages. 
    THE 17TH. 81. He has himself flogged while kissing a boy's ass and 
while fucking a girl in the mouth, then he fucks the boy in the mouth while 
kissing the girl's asshole, the while constantly receiving the lash from 
another girl, then he has the boy flog him, orally fucks the whore who'd 
been whipping him, and then has himself flogged by the girl whose ass he 
had been kissing. 
    82. He has himself whipped by an old woman, fucks an old man in the 
mouth, and has the daughter of this aged couple shit into his own mouth, 
then changes so that, ultimately, everyone takes his turn in each role. 
    83. He has himself whipped while frigging himself and while discharging 
upon a crucifix propped up by a girl's buttocks. 
    84. He has himself whipped while fucking a whore from the rear, using 
his prick to tamp a Host into her fundament. 
    85. He passes an entire brothel in review; he receives the lash from 
all the whores while kissing the madame's asshole and receiving therefrom 
into his mouth both wind and rain and hailstones. 
    THE 18TH. 86. He has himself whipped by teams of cab drivers and 
chimney sweeps who pass two at a time, one plying the lash, the other 
farting in his mouth; he employs ten or twelve in a morning. 
    87. He has himself held by three girls, he gets down on hands and 
knees, a fourth girl mounts astride him and thrashes him; each member of 
the quartet takes her turn mounting and flogging him. 
    88. Naked, he puts himself in the midst of six girls; he is conscience-
stricken, asks to be forgiven, casts himself down upon his knees. Each girl 
decrees a penance, and he is given one hundred strokes for each penance he 
refuses to do: 'tis the girl he refuses who whips him. Well, these penances 
are all exceedingly unpleasant: one would like to shit into his mouth; 
another have him lick up her spittle from the floor; a third is 
menstruating and would have him lick her cunt clean; the fourth hasn't 
washed her feet, will he kindly lick between her toes; the fifth has snot 
awaiting his tongue, etc. 
    89. Fifteen girls arrive in teams of three: one whips him, one sucks 
him, the other shits; the she who shitted, whips; she who sucked, shits; 
she who whipped, sucks. And so he proceeds till he has had done with all 
fifteen; he sees nothing, heeds nothing, is wild with joy: a procuress is 
in charge of the game. He renews this party six times each week. 
    (This one is truly charming and has my infinite recommendation; the 
thing has got to move very briskly along, each girl must bestow twenty-give 
strokes of the whip, and it is between whippings that the first sucks and 
the third shits. If you would prefer fifty strokes from each girl, that 
will total up to seven hundred fifty, a very agreeable figure, not by any 
means excessive.) 
    90. Twenty-five whores soften up his ass with a quantity of slaps and 
fondlings; he is not sent away until his ass has become completely 
insensible. 
    That evening the Duc is flogged while culling Zelmire's forward 
maidenhead. 
    THE 19TH. 91. He has himself tried by a jury of six whores; each knows 
the role she is to play. He is sentenced to be hanged. And hanged he is; 
but the cord snaps: 'tis the instant he discharges. (Relate this to similar 
ones Duclos described.) 
    92. He arranges six old women in a semicircle; while three young whores 
lash him, the six crones spit in his face. 
    93. A girl frigs his asshole with the handle of a cat-o'-nine-tails, a 
second girl whips his thighs and prick from the front; 'tis thus he is made 
eventually to discharge over the tits of the whipper posted before him. 
    94. Two women flay him with bulls' pizzles while a third, kneeling 
before him, causes him to discharge upon her breasts. 
    She recounts only four that day because of the marriage of Zelmire and 
Adonis which marks the seventh week's conclusion, and which is consummated, 
Zelmire having been depucelated, with what regards the cunt, the night 
before. 
    THE 20TH. 95. He struggles with six women, the cuts of whose whips he 
pretends to wish to avoid; he strives to snatch the whips from their hands, 
but they are too strong for him and fustigate him none the less. He is 
naked. 
    96. He runs the gauntlet between two ranks of twelve girls who are 
wielding switches; he is whipped all about the body and discharges after 
the ninth race. 
    97. He has the soles of his feet whipped, then his prick, then his 
thighs while, as he lies upon a couch, three women successively mount 
astride him and shit in his mouth. 
    98. Three girls alternately flog him, one with a martinet, one with a 
bull's pizzle, the other with a cat-o'-nine-tails. A fourth, kneeling 
before him and whose asshole the lecher's lackey is frigging, sucks the 
master's prick while frigging the lackey's, which he has discharge upon his 
sucker's buttocks. 
    99. He is amidst six girls: one pricks him with a needle, the second 
uses pincers on him, the third burns him, the fourth bites him, the fifth 
scratches him, the sixth flagellates him. All that everywhere upon his 
body, indiscriminately. He discharges in the thick of this activity. 
    That evening Zelmire, depucelated on 18th of December, is surrendered 
cuntwardly to the assembly - to, that is to say, Curval and the Duc, who 
alone of the four friends fuck cunts. Once Curval has fucked Zelmire, his 
hatred for Adelaide and Constance redoubles; he wishes to have Constance 
minister to Zelmire. 
    THE 21ST. 100. He has himself frigged by his lackey while the girl, 
naked, balances upon a narrow pedestal; all the while he is being frigged, 
she may neither budge nor lose her equilibrium. 
    101. He has the procuress frig him while he fondles her buttocks; and 
meanwhile, between her fingers, the girl holds a very short candle which 
she must not drop until the roue has spat out his fuck; he is very careful 
not to discharge before the girl's fingers have been seared. 
    102. He sups at an immense table; for light, he has six burning 
candles, each inserted in the ass of a naked girl lying upon the dining 
table. 
    103. While he takes his supper he has a girl kneel on sharp pebbles, 
and if in the course of the entire meal she stirs, she is not paid. Above 
her are two tilted candles whence hot tallow spills upon her bare back and 
breasts. She need but make the slightest movement and she is packed off 
without being paid a sou. 
    104. He obliges her to remain four days in a very narrow iron cage, 
wherein she can neither sit nor lie down; he feeds her through the bars. He 
is the one Desgranges will mention in connection with the turkey's ballet. 
    That same evening, Curval depucelates Colombe's cunt. 
    THE 22ND. 105. He wraps a girl and a cat in a large blanket, has her 
stand and dance about; the cat bites, scratches her as she falls to the 
floor; but, come what may, she must skip and leap, and continue her antics 
until the man discharges. 
    106. He massages a woman with a certain substance which causes her skin 
to itch so violently that she scratches herself till her blood flows; he 
watches her at work, frigging himself the while. 
    107. He gives a woman a potion to drink, it halts her menstruating, and 
thus he makes her run the risk of grave illness. 
    108. He makes her swallow a medicine intended for horses, it causes her 
horrible gripes and colics; he watches her suffer and shit all day long. 
    109. He rubs a naked girl with honey, then binds her to a column and 
releases upon her a swarm of large flies. 
    That same evening, Colombe's cunt is put at the free disposition of the 
company. 
    THE 23RD. 110. He places the girl upon a pivot which revolves with 
prodigious speed. She is naked and bound and turns until he discharges. 
    111. He keeps a girl suspended head downward until he discharges. 
    112. Makes her swallow a heavy dose of emetic, persuades her she has 
been poisoned, and frigs himself while watching her vomit. 
    113. Kneads and mauls her breasts until they are entirely black and 
blue. 
    114. Kneads and maltreats her ass for three hours; he repeats this rite 
for nine days in succession. 
    THE 24TH. 115. He has a girl climb a tall ladder until she is at least 
twenty feet above the ground, at which point a rung cracks and she falls, 
but upon mattresses prepared in advance; he walks up to her and discharges 
upon her body the very moment she lands, and sometimes he chooses this 
instant to fuck her. 
    116. He slaps a girl's face with all his strength and discharges while 
so doing; he is seated in a comfortable chair and the girl is upon her 
knees, facing him. 
    117. Beats her knuckles with hickory ferrules. 
    118. Powerful slaps upon her buttocks until her behind is scarlet. 
    119. Inserts the nozzle of a bellows in her asshole; he inflates her. 
    120. He introduces an enema of almost boiling water into her bowels, 
then amuses himself observing her writhe, and discharges upon her ass. 
    That evening, Aline's ass is soundly slapped by the four colleagues, 
who keep it up until her ass is crimson; a duenna holds her by the 
shoulders. A few slaps are bestowed upon Augustine's ass, too. 
    THE 25TH. 121. He has some pious women recruited for his pleasure, 
beats them with a crucifix and rosaries, and then has each of them pose as 
a statue of the Virgin upon an altar, but pose in a cramped position from 
which they are not to budge. They must remain thus throughout an 
exceedingly long mass; when at last the Elevation occurs, each woman is to 
shit upon the Host. 
    122. Has her run naked about a garden at night, the season is winter, 
the weather freezing; here and there are stretched cords upon which she 
trips and falls. 
    123. When she has removed all her clothes, he casts her, as if by 
accident, into a vat of nearly boiling water and prevents her from climbing 
out until he has first discharged upon her body. 
    124. Naked, on a wintry day she is secured to a post in the middle of a 
garden and there she remains until she has repeated five Pater Nosters and 
five Hail Marys, or until he has yielded his fuck, which another girl 
excites to flow as he contemplates the spectacle. 
    125. He spreads a powerful glue upon the rim of a privy seat and sends 
the girl in to shit; directly she sits down, her ass is caught fast. 
Meanwhile, from the other side a small charcoal brazier is introduced 
beneath her ass. Scorched, she leaps up, leaving an almost perfect circle 
of skin behind her. 
    That evening profane tricks are played at the expense of Adelaide and 
Sophie, the two believers, and the Duc depucelates Augustine, of whom he 
has been passionately fond for weeks; thrice he discharges into her cunt. 
And that same evening the idea enters his head to have her run naked 
through the courtyard, dreadful though the weather be. He proposes the idea 
with great energy and in forceful language, but his confreres regretfully 
reject it, saying that Augustine is very pretty and that the program calls 
for her further use; and, the Bishop points out, she still has not been 
depucelated aft. The Duc offers to pay two hundred louis into the common 
fund if the society will allow him to take her down into the cellars at 
once; he is again refused. He wishes at least that she have her ass 
spanked; she receives twenty-five blows from each friend. But the Duc 
applies his with his fist and discharges a fourth time between the 
eighteenth and nineteenth. He requisitions her for his bed and that night 
encunts her thrice again. 
    THE 26TH. 126. He gets the girl thoroughly drunk, she lies down to 
sleep. While asleep, her bed is raised. Toward the middle of the night, she 
reaches down for her chamber pot; not finding it within reach, she gropes 
further and tumbles out upon a mattress; the man awaits her there and fucks 
her as soon as she has fallen. 
    127. He has her run naked about the garden, he follows after her, 
brandishing a cabman's whip, but only threatens her with it. She is obliged 
to run until she falls from weariness; at which instant he springs upon her 
and fucks her. 
    128. He bestows one hundred strokes, ten at a time, with a martinet of 
black silk; between each series of blows, he kisses the girl's ass with 
great fervor. 
    129. He flogs her with a cat-o'-nine-tails whose thongs have been 
steeped in brandy, and does not discharge until the girl's blood is 
flowing. Then he discharges upon her buttocks. 
    Champville recounts only four passions on the 26th of December because 
it is the day of the eight week's festival. It is celebrated by the 
marriage of Zephyr and Augustine, both of whom belong to the Duc and lie at 
night in his chamber; but prior to the ceremony, His Grace would have 
Curval flog the boy while he, Blangis, flogs the girl; and 'tis done. Each 
receives a hundred lashes, but the Duc, more than ever aroused by Augustine 
because she has made him discharge frequently, lays on very emphatically 
and is content with nothing short of much blood. 
    In connection with that evening's entertainments, we must fully explain 
the character of the Saturday punishments - how they are meted out and how 
many lashes are distributed. You might draw up a list itemizing the crimes 
and, to the right, the appropriate number of lashes. 
    THE 27TH. 130. He likes to whip none but little girls between the ages 
of five and seven, and always finds a pretext so as to make it appear as if 
he were punishing them. 
    131. A woman comes to confess to him, he is a priest; she recites all 
her sins, and by way of penance, he gives her five hundred lashes. 
    132. He receives four women and gives each six hundred lashes. 
    133. He has the same ceremony performed in his presence by two valets, 
one relieving the other when his arm is fatigued by the whipping; twenty 
women are dealt with, each merits six hundred strokes: the women are not 
bound. He frigs himself while the work is in progress. 
    134. He flogs only boys aged from fourteen to sixteen, and he has them 
discharge into his mouth afterward. Each is warmed by one hundred lashes; 
he always sees two at a sitting. 
    Augustine's cunt is surrendered that evening; Curval encunts her twice 
and, like the Duc, wishes to whip her when he has had done with her. Both 
gentlemen fall upon that charming girl like ravenous beasts; they propose a 
contribution of four hundred louis to the common fund in exchange for 
permission to take her in hand together that same evening; their offer is 
rejected. 
    THE 28TH. 135. He has a naked girl enter a chamber; whereupon two men 
fall upon her and each whips one of her buttocks until it is raw. She is 
bound. When 'tis over, he frigs the men's pricks upon the whore's bleeding 
ass, and frigs himself thereupon also. 
    136. She is bound hand and foot to the wall. Facing her, and also 
attached to the wall, is a blade of steel adjusted to the height of her 
belly. If she strives to avoid a blow, it is forward she must lunge; she 
cuts herself. If she wishes to avoid the blade, she must fling herself 
backward toward the lash. 
    137. He flogs a girl, giving her one hundred lashes the first day, two 
hundred the second, four hundred the third, etc., etc., and ceases on the 
ninth day. 
    138. He has the whore descend on all fours, climbs upon her back and 
faces her buttocks; he squeezes his legs tight about her ribs. Once in the 
saddle, he brings his lash down upon her ass and curls the thongs round to 
her cunt, and as for this operation he employs a martinet, he has no 
trouble directing his blows so that they carry into the vagina's interior, 
and that is just what he does. 
    139. He must have a pregnant woman, he has her bend backward over a 
cylinder which supports her back. Her head, on the other side of the 
cylinder, rests upon the seat of a chair and is secured to it; her hair is 
strewn about, her legs tied as far apart as possible and her swollen belly 
appears stretched exceedingly taut; her cunt fairly yawns in his face. 'Tis 
upon her belly he beats a tattoo, and when his whip has brought a profusion 
of blood into sight, he walks round to the other side of the cylinder and 
discharges upon her face. 
    N.B.-According to my notes, the adoptions do not occur until after defloration, hence say that the Duc adopts 
Augustine at this point. Verify whether or not this is true, and whether the adoption of the four sultanas does not 
occur at the very beginning, and whether at the beginning it is not said that they sleep in the bedrooms of the 
friends who have adopted them. 
    That evening, the Duc repudiates Constance, who therewith falls into 
the greatest discredit; however, they treat her with some consideration, 
because of her pregnancy, in connection with which Messieurs have certain 
plans. Augustine now passes for the Duc's wife, and hereafter performs none 
but a wife's functions upon the sofa and in the chapel. Constance descends 
in rank to below that of the governesses. 
    THE 29TH. 140. He works exclusively with girls of fifteen, and he flogs 
them with sting nettles and holly until they are bleeding; his taste in 
asses is highly developed, he is not easy to please. 
    141. Flogs only with a bull's pizzle, continuing until the buttocks are 
in tatters; he uses four women one after another. 
    142. Flogs only with steel-tipped martinets, discharges only when blood 
is flowing generally. 
    143. The same man of whom Desgranges will speak on the 20th of February 
requires pregnant women; he flogs with a bullwhip, by means of which he is 
able to remove respectable chunks of flesh from the buttocks; from time to 
time he aims a blow or two at her belly. 
    Rosette is flogged that evening, and Curval has her forward maidenhead. 
The intrigue between Hercule and Julie is brought to light; she has been 
having herself fucked. When scolded for her misbehavior, she replies 
libertinely; she is therewith whipped extraordinarily. Then, because 
Messieurs are fond of her, and also of Hercule, who has given yeoman 
service so far, they are pardoned and frolicked with. 
    THE 30TH. 144. He places a candle at a certain height. Attached to the 
middle finger of her right hand is a piece of bread soaked in wax and set 
afire; if she does not make haste, she'll be burned. Her task is, with this 
bit of ignited bread, to light the other candle set high upon the shelf; 
she is obliged to leap in order to reach it; the libertine, armed with a 
leathern-thonged whip, lashes her with all his strength, to encourage her 
to leap higher and to light the candle more quickly. If she succeeds, 
there's an end to the game; if not, she is flogged till she falls 
unconscious. 
    145. He flogs first his wife, then his daughter, and prostitutes them 
at the brothel in order to have them whipped while he looks on, but this is 
not the same man of whom we have already spoken. 
    146. Whips with a cat-o'-nine-tails, from the nape of the neck to the 
calves of the legs; the girl is bound, he excoriates her entire back. 
    147. Whips breasts only; he insists that they be exceedingly large. And 
pays twice the sum when the woman is pregnant. 
    Rosette's cunt is delivered up to the society that evening; after 
Curval and the Duc have thoroughly fucked it, they and their colleagues 
thoroughly whip it. She is down on her hands and knees; Messieurs take care 
to drive the martinet's steel tips well up into her. 
    THE 31ST. 148.He whips the face only, using a bundle of dry switches; 
he must have charming faces. Desgranges will refer to him on the 7th of 
February. 
    149. Using switches, he impartially lashes the entire body, sparing 
nothing, face, cunt, and breasts included. 
    150. Gives two hundred blows of the bull's pizzle, these being 
distributed evenly up and down the backs of lads aged from sixteen to 
twenty. 
    151. He is in a room, four girls arouse and flog him; when at last he 
is all afire, he leaps upon a fifth girl, who is naked and awaiting him in 
the next room and, wielding a bull's pizzle, he assails whatever of her he 
can reach, maintaining the hail of blows until he discharges; but in order 
that his ejaculation arrive sooner and the patient suffer less, he is not 
sent into the second room until his discharge is imminent. 
    (Find out why there is one too many.) 
    Champville is applauded, the same honors are bestowed upon her that 
were given Duclos, and that evening both storytellers dine with Messieurs. 
Later, at the orgies, Adelaide, Aline, Augustine, and Zelmire are condemned 
to be whipped with switches all over the body save upon the breasts, but as 
the friends are to sport with them for another two months, they are treated 
circumspectly. 




PART THE THIRD
THE 150 CRIMINAL PASSIONS, OR THOSE BELONGING TO THE THIRD CLASS, COMPOSING 
THE THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF JANUARY PASSED IN HEARING THE NARRATIONS OF MADAME 
MARTAINE; INTERSPERSED AMONGST WHICH ARE THE SCANDALOUS DOINGS AT THE 
CHÂTEAU DURING THAT MONTH; ALL BEING SET DOWN IN THE FORM OF A JOURNAL. 
(DRAFT) 
 
    THE 1ST OF JANUARY. 1. He loves nothing but to have himself embuggered, 
and he is never able to find too thick a prick. But, says Martaine, she'll 
not lay much emphasis upon this passion which is too simple a taste and one 
wherewith her auditors are far too well acquainted. 
    2. He wishes to depucelate none but little girls between the ages of 
three and seven, in the bum. This is the man who had her pucelage in this 
manner: she was four years old, the ordeal caused her to fall ill, her 
mother implored this man to give aid, money. But his heart was of flint. . 
. . 
    And this man is the same one of whom Duclos spoke on the 29th of 
November; the same again who appears in Champville's story of the 2nd of 
December. He has a prick of colossal proportions, he is enormously rich. He 
depucelates two little girls every day: one of them in the cunt, in the 
morning, as Champville related on the 2nd of December, the other in the 
bum, in the afternoon; and he has a quantity of other passions as well. 
Four women held Martaine when he embuggered her. His discharge lasts six 
minutes, and he bellows like a bull while it is in progress. His simple, 
straightforward, and adroit method of threading her needle, even though she 
was a young thing of four; describe all that. 
    3. Her mother sells the pucelage of Martaine's older brother to a man 
who sodomizes boys only, and who would have them exactly seven years old. 
    4. She is now thirteen, her brother fifteen; they go to the home of a 
man who constrains the brother to fuck his sister, and who alternately 
fucks now the boy's ass, now the girl's, while they are in each other's 
clutches. 
    Martaine proudly describes her ass; Messieurs request her to display 
it, she exhibits it from the platform. 
    The man she has just spoken of, she continues, is the same person who 
figured in Duclos' story of the 21st of November, the Comte, and who will 
appear in Desgranges' of the 24th of February. 
    5. He has himself fucked while embuggering the brother and sister; the 
same personage Desgranges will refer to on the 24th of February. 
    That same evening, the Duc depucelates the bum of Hebe, who is merely 
twelve. The operation succeeds only at the price of infinite trouble: she 
is held by the four duennas and administered by Duclos and Champville. And 
as there is to be a festival on the morrow, in order that things run 
smoothly then, Hebe's ass is also, on the evening of the 1st of January, 
surrendered to the society, and all four friends take full advantage of it. 
She is carried away unconscious; has been buggered seven times. 
    (Martaine must not say that she has a uterine deformity; that would be false.) 
    THE 2ND. 6. He has four girls fart in his mouth all the while he 
embuggers a fifth, then he changes girls. All rotate: all fart, all are 
embuggered; he does not discharge until he has finished with the fifth ass. 
    7. Amuses himself with three small boys: embuggers and has each of them 
shit, puts all three to each task, and frigs the boy who is inactive. 
    8. He fucks the sister in the mouth while having her brother shit into 
his mouth, then he reverses their roles, and during both exercises he is 
embuggered. 
    9. He embuggers none but girls of fifteen, but only after having, by 
way of preliminary, flogged them with all his strength. 
    10. For an hour he pinches and molests her buttocks and asshole, then 
embuggers her while she is flogged with exceeding violence. 
    The ninth week's festival is celebrated upon that day: Hercule weds 
Hebe and fucks her cuntwardly. Curval and the Duc take turns sodomizing 
first the husband, then the wife. 
    THE 3RD. 11. He embuggers only during mass, and discharges at the 
moment of the Elevation of the Host. 
    12. He embuggers only while kicking a crucifix about in the dust; the 
girl must treat it with like contempt. 
    13. The man who amused himself with Eugenie on Duclos' eleventh day has 
the girl shit, wipes the well-beshitted ass; he possesses an outsized 
prick, and embuggers, ploughing into the asshole behind a consecrated Host. 
    14. Embuggers a youth, has a second youth embugger him, both ploughing, 
as above, behind a protective Host; upon the nape of the neck of the boy he 
is embuggering rests another Host, and a third youth shits thereupon. He 
discharges thus, without changing position, but while uttering fearful 
blasphemies. 
    15. He embuggers the priest while the latter is in the act of saying 
mass, and when the priest has performed the consecration, the fucker 
withdraws for a moment; profiting from this brief interval, the priest 
buries the Host in his ass, the fucker returns straightway to work and re-
embuggers him, tamping in the wafer. 
    That evening, Curval, with a Host depucelates in the bum the young and 
charming Zelamir. And Antinoüs fucks the President with another Host; while 
fucking, the President's tongue pushes a third into Fanchon's asshole. 
    THE 4TH. 16. He likes to embugger none but very aged women while they 
are being lashed. 
    17. Embuggers only very aged men while being fucked. 
    18. Has a regular intrigue with his son. 
    19. Will embugger none but monsters, or blackamoors, or deformed 
persons. 
    20. In order to combine incest, adultery, sodomy and sacrilege, he 
embuggers his married daughter with a Host. 
    That evening the four friends avail themselves of Zelamir's ass. 
    THE 5TH. 21. He has two men alternately fuck and flagellate him while 
he embuggers a young boy and while an old man sheds a turd into his mouth. 
He eats the turd. 
    22. Two men take turns fucking him, one in the mouth, the other in the 
ass; this exercise must last no less than three hours by the clock. He 
swallows the fuck emanating from him who fucks him in the mouth. 
    23. He has himself fucked by ten men, whom he pays so much by the 
discharge; during a given day he withstands as many as twenty-four without 
himself discharging. 
    24. For the purposes of ass-fuckery, he prostitutes his wife, his 
daughter, and his sister, and watches the proceedings. 
    25. He employs eight men at a time: one in his mouth, one in his ass, 
one beneath his left testicle, one beneath his right; he frigs two others, 
each with one hand, he lodges a seventh between his thighs and the eighth 
frigs himself upon his face. 
    That evening, the Duc deflowers Michette's ass and causes her frightful 
pain. 
    THE 6TH. 26. He has an elderly man embuggered in his presence; several 
times over the prick is removed from that ancient asshole, it is placed in 
the mouth of the examiner, who sucks it, then sucks the old man's prick, 
sucks his asshole, and penetrates it while he who has been fucking the old 
man now embuggers the lecher, and is lashed by the lecher's governess. For 
the lecher is still a young man. 
    27. He vigorously constricts the neck of the fifteen-year-old girl he 
is embuggering - choking her neck has the effect of tightening her anus; 
meanwhile, he is flogged with a bull's pizzle. 
    28. He has large spheres of quicksilver inserted into his bowels. These 
spheres rise up in his entrails, then descend, and during the excessive 
titillation caused thereby, he sucks pricks, swallows fuck, has shit out of 
whores' asses, bolts turds. This ecstasy lasts a good two hours. 
    29. He would have himself embuggered by the father while he sodomizes 
that father's son and daughter. 
    Michette's ass is surrendered to the company that evening. Durcet 
selects Martaine for his bedroom companion, following the precedent 
established by the Duc, who has Duclos, and by Curval, who has Fanchon; 
Martaine has begun to exert upon Durcet much the same lubricious influence 
Duclos exerts upon Blangis. 
    THE 7TH. 30. He fucks a turkey whose head is gripped between the legs 
of a girl lying on her belly - while in action he looks quite as if he were 
embuggering the girl. While he is at work he is being sodomized, and the 
moment he discharges, the girl cuts the turkey's throat. 
    31. He fucks a goat from behind while being flogged; the goat conceives 
and gives birth to a monster. Monster though it be, he embuggers it. 
    32. He embuggers bucks. 
    33. Wishes to see a woman discharge after having been frigged by a dog; 
and he shoots the dog dead while its head is between the woman's thighs. 
But he does not harm the woman. 
    34. Embuggers a swan after having popped a Host up into its ass; then 
strangles the bird upon discharging. 
    This same evening, the Bishop embuggers Cupidon for the first time. 
    THE 8TH. 35. He has himself placed in a specially prepared wickerwork 
structure provided with an opening at one end; against this opening he 
places his asshole after having anointed it with mare's fuck. The structure 
he is in represents a mare's body and is covered with horsehide. A genuine 
horse is fetched in, mounts the artificial mare, embuggers him and 
meanwhile he fucks a pretty white bitch he has with him in the basket. 
    36. He fucks a cow, it conceives and gives birth to a monster which, 
shortly thereafter, he fucks. 
    37. In a similar basket he places a woman who receives a bull's member 
in her cunt. He watches this entertaining spectacle. 
    38. He has a tamed serpent which he introduces into his anus; while 
being thus sodomized, he embuggers a cat in a basket. Firmly contained 
therein, the animal can do him no harm. 
    39. He fucks a she-ass while having himself embuggered by an ass. (For 
this delight an elaborate machine is indispensable. We will give a 
description of it elsewhere.) 
    That evening, Cupidon's ass is presented to the society. 
    THE 9TH. 40. He fucks the nostrils of a goat which meanwhile is licking 
his balls; and during this exercise, he is alternately flogged and has his 
asshole licked. 
    41. He embuggers a sheep while a dog is licking his asshole. 
    42. He embuggers a dog whose head is cut off while he discharges. 
    43. He obliges a whore to frig a donkey, he is fucked while observing 
this spectacle. 
    44. He fucks a monkey's asshole, the animal is enclosed in a basket; 
while being sodomized, the monkey is tormented in order that its anus will 
constrict about the libertine's member. 
    That evening, the tenth week's festival is celebrated by the marriage 
of Bum-Cleaver and Michette; the union is consummated, 'tis a dolorous 
experience for the bride. 
    THE 10TH. Martaine announces that she is going to move on to another 
passion, and that the whip, of central importance in Champville's 
contributions of December, will enjoy only a secondary one in hers. 
    45. The procuress is obliged to find him girls guilty of some felony or 
other; he arrives, frightens them, says that they are going certainly to be 
arrested but that he will take it upon himself to protect them provided 
they will submit to a violent fustigation, and, afraid as they are, they 
let themselves be whipped till they bleed. 
    46. Has a woman with beautiful hair brought to him, saying he simply 
wishes to examine her hair; but he cuts it off very traitorously and 
discharges upon seeing her melt into tears and bewail her misfortune, at 
which he laughs immoderately. 
    47. With all sorts of attendant ceremonies, she enters a dark room. She 
sees no one there, but overhears a conversation regarding her - give 
details of this conversation - which is of a nature to frighten her nearly 
to death. Finally, she receives a deluge of slaps and blows without knowing 
whence they come; she hears the cries accompanying a discharge, then is 
taken out of the room. 
    48. She enters a kind of subterranean sepulcher which is lit by nothing 
but a few oil lamps; they reveal all the horror of the place. After a 
moment, during which she is able to observe everything, all the lamps are 
extinguished, a horrible series of screams and the rattling of chains are 
heard, she collapses in a swoon; if she does not faint, the noises are 
multiplied until finally she does fall unconscious from terror. Once 
unconscious, a man swoops down upon her and embuggers her, then abandons 
her, and valets later come to her rescue; he must have very young and very 
inexperienced girls. Novices, if possible. 
    49. She enters a similar place, but provide a few details to 
distinguish it from the sepulcher above. She is stripped, thrust naked into 
a coffin, the coffin's lid is nailed down, and the rhythm of the hammer 
driving the nails finally excites the man's discharge. 
    That afternoon, Zelmire was taken down to the cellars we have 
previously mentioned, which had been prepared in the manner we have just 
described. The four friends are there, naked and equipped with weapons; 
Zelmire swoons, and while she is unconscious, Curval depucelates her bum. 
The President has been seized by the very same sentiments of love (mixed 
with lubric rage) for this girl that the Duc has for Augustine. 
    THE 11TH. 50. The same Duc de Florville, of whom Duclos spoke on the 
29th of November, and of whom Desgranges, in her fifth story, will speak on 
the 26th of February, wishes to have the corpse of a beautiful and recently 
murdered girl placed upon a bed covered with black satin; he fondles the 
body, explores its every nook and cranny, and embuggers it. 
    51. Another individual requires two corpses, those of a boy and of a 
girl, and he embuggers the youth's dead body while kissing the buttocks of 
the girl's and driving his tongue into its anus. 
    52. He receives the girl in a small room filled with most convincing 
wax representations of dead bodies, they are all pierced in various ways. 
He recommends that the girl make her choice, saying he intends to kill her 
in whatever way she prefers, inviting her to choose the corpse whose wounds 
please her most. 
    53. He binds her to an authentic corpse, knee to knee, mouth to mouth, 
and flogs her until the back of her body is covered with blood. 
    Zelmire's ass is made the evening's treat, but before being served up, 
she is subjected to a trial, and she is advised that she will be killed 
that night; she believes what she is told but, instead of dispatching her, 
Messieurs are content each to give her a hundred lashes after having 
generously embuggered her, and Curval takes her to bed with him. She is 
further embuggered all night. 
    THE 12TH. 54. The girl must be menstruating. She arrives at his home, a 
valet conducts her to a room in the cellar where the libertine stands 
awaiting her, but he is near a kind of reservoir of icy water, more than 
twelve feet across and eight deep; it is concealed in such a way the girl 
does not notice it. She approaches the man, he topples her into it, and 
discharges the instant he hears the splash; she is pulled back out at once, 
but as she is menstruating, severe disability is the very frequent result 
of her adventure. 
    55. He lowers her into a very deep well and shouts down after her that 
he is about to fill it with large stones; he flings in a few clods of earth 
to frighten her, and discharges into the well, his seed landing on the 
naked whore's head. 
    56. He has a pregnant woman brought to him and terrifies her with 
threats and words, flogs her, continuing his ill-treatment of her until she 
either has a miscarriage there and then, or will surely have one when she 
returns home. If she disgorges her fruit while under his roof, she receives 
double payment. 
    57. He locks her into a black dungeon, surrounded by cats, rats, and 
mice; he gives her to understand she has been put there for the rest of her 
life, and every day he goes to her door, frigs himself, and banters with 
her. 
    58. He inserts sheafs of straw in her ass, ignites them, and watches 
her buttocks sizzle as the straw burns short. 
    That evening, Curval announces he will take Zelmire to be his wife, and 
does indeed publicly marry her. The Bishop officiates at the wedding, the 
President repudiates Julie who therewith falls into the greatest discredit, 
but her libertinage speaks strongly in her favor and the Bishop is disposed 
to protect her somewhat until the time shall arrive for him to declare 
himself entirely for her - he will so declare himself later on. 
    More clearly than ever before, upon this particular evening his 
associates notice Durcet's teasing hatred for Adelaide; he torments her, 
vexes her, she wails and is melancholy. And her father, the President, does 
not by any means give her his support. 
    THE 13TH. 59. He attaches a girl to a St. Andrew's cross suspended in 
the air, and whips her with all his might, flaying her entire back. After 
which, he unties her and casts her out through a window, but mattresses are 
there to lighten her fall, upon hearing which he discharges. Give further 
details of the scene in order to justify his reaction. 
    60. He has her swallow a drug which unhinges her imagination and causes 
her to see horrible things in the room. She fancies the room is being 
flooded, sees the water rise, climbs upon a chair, but still the water 
mounts, reaches her, and she is told that she has no alternative but to 
leap in and swim; she plunges, but falls upon the stone floor and injures 
herself badly. 'Tis at this point the libertine discharges; previously, he 
has taken much pleasure in kissing her ass. 
    61. He holds her suspended by a rope that runs up through a pulley 
affixed to the top of a tower; he stands at a window, she hangs directly 
outside and opposite him. He frigs himself and threatens to sever the rope 
as he discharges. While all this is afoot he is being flogged, and earlier 
he induces the whore to shit for him. 
    62. She is held by four slender cords, each attached to one of her 
limbs. She is held thus in a very cruel and painful position; a trap door 
is opened beneath her and a charcoal brazier, very hot, is discovered to 
her view: if the cords break, she falls thereupon. The roue meddles with 
the cords, strains them, cuts one while discharging. Sometimes he suspends 
the girl in the same attitude, places a weight upon her belly, then 
suddenly jerks all four cords, pulling her up, and in so doing rupturing 
her stomach and tearing her muscles. She remains where she is until he 
discharges. 
    63. He binds her to a low stool; suspended a foot above her head is a 
dagger whose point is filed needle sharp; the dagger hangs by a hair - if 
the hair snaps, the dagger drives into her skull. The libertine frigs 
himself while watching his victim's anxious contortions. An hour later, he 
frees her and bloodies her buttocks with light jabs of the same dagger 
which, he would like to have her remark, pricks very nicely; he discharges 
upon her bloodsoaked ass. 
    That evening, the Bishop depucelates Colombe's bum, and after his 
discharge lashes her with a whip, for he cannot bear to have a girl cause 
him to discharge. 
    THE 14TH. 64. He embuggers a young novice who knows nothing of the ways 
of the world, and as he discharges, he fires two pistol shots very close to 
her ear. The powder singes her hair. 
    65. He makes her sit down in an armchair balanced on springs; her 
weight releases a number of springs connected to iron rings which bind her 
tightly to the chair. Certain levers and gears advance twenty daggers until 
their points graze her skin; the man frigs himself, the while explaining 
that the least movement of the chair will cause her to be stabbed. He 
sprays his fuck upon her, in so doing touching the chair very delicately 
with his foot. 
    66. A bascule carries her down into a small crypt hung in black and 
furnished with a prie-dieu, a coffin, and an assortment of death's heads. 
She sees six specters armed with clubs, swords, pistols, sabers, poignards, 
and lances, and each is about to pierce her in a different place. Overcome 
by fear, she sways, is about to fall; the man enters, catches her in his 
arms, and flogs her until he is weary, then discharges as he embuggers her. 
If she is unconscious at the time he enters, and this is frequently the 
case, his lash restores her to her senses. 
    67. She enters a room in a tower, in its center she sees a large 
charcoal brazier; upon a table, poison and a dirk; she is allowed to choose 
the manner whereby she is to perish. It generally happens that she selects 
poison. 'Tis a variety of opiate which plunges her into a profound 
drowsiness; while the spell lasts, the libertine embuggers her. He is the 
same personage Duclos cited on the 27th of November and of whom Desgranges 
will say more on the 6th of February. 
    68. The same gentleman who will figure in Desgranges' story of the 16th 
of February goes through the entire ceremony of preparing to decapitate the 
girl; just as the blow falls, a rope suddenly snatches the girl's body 
away, the axe-blade sinks three inches into the block. If the rope does not 
drag the girl away, she dies. He discharges while bringing down the axe. 
But prior to this, he has embuggered her as she lies with her neck upon the 
block. 
    Colombe's ass is plumbed by the society that evening, and Messieurs 
pretend to cut off her head. They are accomplished actors. 
    THE 15TH. 69. He slips a noose around the whore's throat and hangs her. 
Her feet rest upon a stool, a cord is tied to one leg of the stool, he sits 
in an armchair, watching and having the whore's daughter frig him. When he 
discharges, he pulls the cord, the whore hangs, he leaves, valets enter and 
cut the whore down. A leech lets some blood from one of her veins and she 
returns to life, but these attentions are given her without the libertine's 
knowledge. He goes off to bed with the whore's daughter and sodomizes her 
all night long, while doing so telling her he has hanged her mother. Have 
Martaine say that Desgranges will refer to him again. 
    70. He holds the girl by the ears and walks her around the room, 
discharging as he parades with her. 
    71. He pinches the girl's body, nipping her everywhere save upon the 
breast, till she turns black and blue. 
    72. He pinches her breasts, molests them, and kneads them until they 
are completely bruised. 
    73. He writes letters and words upon her breasts, working with a needle 
which has a poisoned tip; her breasts become infected, and she suffers 
excruciatingly. 
    74. Drives between one and two thousand pins into her breasts, and 
discharges when he has covered them. 
    More libertine with every passing day, Julie is discovered frigging 
herself with Champville. The Bishop affords her additional protection and 
thereafter admits her into his bedchamber, as the Duc has Duclos, Durcet 
Martaine, and Curval Fanchon. Julie confesses that at the time of her 
repudiation, having been condemned to sleep in the stables with the other 
animals, she appealed to Champville and was taken into her chamber; they 
have been bedding together ever since. 
    THE 16TH. 75. He buries large hatpins in the girl's flesh, dotting her 
entire body, her nipples included; he discharges after having driven home 
the last pin. Desgranges will return to the same enthusiast in her fourth 
story of the 27th of February. 
    76. He gives her a great deal to drink, then sews up her cunt and 
asshole; he leaves her thus sealed up till he remarks she is nigh to 
collapsing from the need to piss and shit, two activities which are 
impossible in the state she is in; or else he waits until the weight of the 
shit and the pressure of the piss finally breaks the stitches. 
    77. Four gentlemen enter the room and cuff the girl, strike and kick 
her until she falls. When she is down, all four mutually frig one another 
and discharge. 
    78. She is deprived of air, then given air, then 'tis taken away again. 
She is lodged within a pneumatic machine. 
    To celebrate the end of the eleventh week, the wedding of Colombe and 
Antinoüs takes place that day, and is consummated. The Duc, who has been 
indulging in some prodigious cunt-fuckery with Augustine, has been seized 
by a lubricious fury: he has had Duclos hold her, and has given her three 
hundred lashes distributed between the middle of her back and her calves, 
and, after that, has embuggered Duclos while kissing Augustine's flogged 
ass. Directly after having molested her, he does some foolish things, for 
his head is completely giddy: he has her sit beside him at table, will 
touch no food save what he has out of her mouth, dotes upon her, and does a 
thousand other things, all very illogical and very libertine. But he and 
his confreres are men of that strange turn of character. 
    THE 17TH. 79. He binds the girl belly down upon a dining table and eats 
a piping hot omelette served upon her buttocks. He uses an exceedingly 
sharp fork. 
    80. He immobilizes her head above a grill, lights a brisk fire, and 
roasts her until she loses consciousness, embuggering her steadily. 
    81. He gently toasts the skin of her breasts and buttocks, proceeding 
very gradually, and using sulphur-tipped matches. 
    82. He uses candles and extinguishes them again and again by snuffing 
them out in her cunt, her asshole, and upon her nipples. 
    83. With a match he sears her eyelids; this prevents her from sleeping 
soundly that night, for she cannot close her eyes. 
    That evening, the Duc depucelates Giton, who finds the experience 
discomfiting, for the Duc is enormous, fucks with great brutality, and 
Giton is, after all, only twelve. 
    THE 18TH. 84. Pointing a pistol at her heart, he obliges her to chew 
and swallow a live coal, and then he washes out her cunt with aqua fortis. 
    85. He has her dance the olivettes. Naked, she is to dance round four 
pillars; but the only path her naked feet can tread is studded with shards 
of broken glass and bits of sharp metal and pointed tacks and nails; by 
each pillar stands a man, a bundle of switches in his hand, and he lashes 
whichever side of her body she offers every time she passes by him. She is 
thus obliged to run a certain number of turns around, it all depending upon 
whether she is more or less attractive. The most beautiful are harried the 
most. 
    86. He strikes her violently in the face until the blows of his fist 
bring blood from her nose, and he continues yet a while longer, the blood 
notwithstanding; he discharges and mixes his fuck with the blood she has 
lost. 
    87. Employing very well-heated tongs, he pinches her flesh, and mainly 
her buttocks, her mons veneris and her breasts. Desgranges will have more 
to say about this personage. 
    88. Upon various parts of her naked, reclining body, especially the 
more sensitive areas, he places little mounds of gunpowder, then sets fire 
to them. 
    Giton's ass is made public property that evening, and after this 
ceremony, he is flogged by Curval, the Duc, and the Bishop, who have fucked 
him. 
    THE 19TH. 89. He inserts a cylinder of gunpowder in her cunt, removes 
the cylinder, leaves the powder there; he puts a match to the charge and 
ejaculates upon seeing the flames dart forth. Earlier, he has kissed her 
ass. 
    90. He soaks her everywhere from head to foot with brandy, brings a 
match near and entertains himself with the spectacle of this poor girl all 
covered with flames. Then he discharges. He repeats the same operation two 
or three times. 
    91. He gives her bowels a rinsing with boiling oil. 
    92. He introduces a red-hot iron into her anus, another into her cunt, 
after having thoroughly whipped the latter. 
    93. He likes to trample upon a pregnant woman until she aborts. Prior 
to this he whips her. 
    That same evening, Curval depucelates Sophie's bum, but this ordeal 
succeeds another: she has first been given one hundred lashes by each of 
the friends and is streaming blood. Directly Curval has discharged into her 
ass, he offers to pay the society five hundred louis for permission to take 
her down to the cellars that very evening and to be given a free hand with 
her. Curval's request is rejected, he re-embuggers her, and upon emerging 
from her ass after this second discharge, he gives her a kick which sends 
her sprawling upon a mattress fifteen feet away. He revenges himself upon 
Zelmire, whom he flogs till his arm aches. 
    THE 20TH. 94. He appears to be caressing the girl who is frigging him, 
she suspects nothing; but at the moment he discharges, he seizes her head 
and batters it against the wall. The blow is so strong and so unexpected 
that she usually falls unconscious. 
    95. They are four libertines assembled; they judge a girl, and, 
ultimately disagreeing upon what punishment to inflict, decide to sentence 
her individually. All in all, she receives one hundred strokes of the whip; 
each juror metes out twenty-five of them: the first flogs her from the back 
to the loins, the second from the loins to the calves, the third from the 
neck to the navel, breasts included, the fourth from the belly to the 
shins. 
    96. Using a pin, he pricks each of her eyes, each nipple, and her 
clitoris. 
    97. He drops molten sealing wax upon her buttocks, into her cunt, and 
upon her breasts. 
    98. He opens the veins in one arm and bleeds her until she faints. 
    Curval suggests they bleed Constance because of her pregnancy; and bled 
she is, until she collapses, 'tis Durcet who acts as her leech. That 
evening, Messieurs avail themselves of Sophie's ass, and the Duc proposes 
she be bled also, it could not possibly do her any harm, no, on the 
contrary, they might make a nice pudding of her blood for tomorrow's 
luncheon. His idea is acclaimed, Curval now plays the leech, Duclos frigs 
him while he operates, and he wishes to make the puncture at the same 
moment his fuck departs his balls; and he makes a generous puncture, but 
his blade finds the vein none the less. Despite it all, Sophie has pleased 
the Bishop, who adopts her for his wife, repudiating Aline, who falls into 
the greatest discredit. 
    THE 21ST. 99. He bleeds both of her arms and would have her remain 
standing while her blood flows; now and again he stops the bleeding and 
flogs her, then opens the wounds again, and this continues until she 
collapses. He only discharges when she faints. Earlier in the game he had 
her shit for him. 
    100. He bleeds her from all four of her limbs and from her jugular vein 
too, and frigs himself while watching the five fountains of blood. 
    101. He lightly scarifies her flesh, concentrating upon her buttocks, 
but neglecting her breasts. 
    102. He scarifies her vigorously, cutting deep, devoting particular 
attention to her breasts and especially to her nipples, and to the environs 
of her asshole when he turns his attentions to her behind. Next, he 
cauterizes the wounds with a red-hot iron. 
    103. He is bound hand and foot, as if he were a wild beast, and he is 
draped in a tiger's skin. When thus readied, he is excited, irritated, 
whipped, beaten, his ass is frigged; opposite him is a plump young girl, 
naked and tied by her feet to the floor, by her neck to the ceiling, in 
such wise she cannot stir. When the roue is all a-sweat, his captors free 
him, he leaps upon the girl, bites her everywhere and above all her 
clitoris and her nipples, which he generally manages to remove with his 
teeth. He roars and cries like a ferocious animal, and discharges while 
shrieking. The girl must shit, he eats her turd upon the floor. 
    That evening, the Bishop depucelates Narcisse; he is surrendered to the 
society the same evening, so that the festival of the 23rd will not be 
disturbed. Before embuggering him, the Duc has him shit into his mouth and 
render him, together with the turd, his predecessors' fuck. And then, after 
having sodomized the lad, Blangis scourges him. 
    THE 22ND. 104. He pulls out her teeth and scratches her gums with 
needles. Sometimes he heats the needles. 
    105. He breaks one of her fingers, several upon occasion. 
    106. Employing a heavy hammer, he flattens one of her feet. 
    107. He removes a hand, sawing through the wrist. 
    108. While discharging, he batters in her front teeth with a hammer. He 
is very fond of sucking her mouth before proceeding to the major phase of 
his operation. 
    The Duc depucelates Rosette in the rear that evening, and the same 
instant his prick sounds her ass, Curval extracts one of the little girl's 
teeth - this in order that she may experience two terrible pains at the 
same time. So that the morrow's festival not be disturbed, her ass is made 
generally available that same evening. When Curval has discharged thereinto 
(and he is the last of the four to do so), he sends the child spinning with 
a blow of his fist. 
    THE 23RD. Because of the holiday, only four are related. 
    109. He amputates one foot. 
    110. He breaks one of her arms as he embuggers her. 
    111. Using a crowbar, he breaks a bone in her leg and embuggers her 
after doing so. 
    112. He ties her to a stepladder, her limbs being attached in a 
peculiar manner, a cord is tied to the ladder; he pulls the cord, the 
ladder falls. Sometimes she breaks one limb, sometimes another. 
    Upon that day Invictus was married to Rosette; their wedding celebrated 
the twelfth week's festival. That evening, Rosette is bled after she has 
been fucked, and Aline is likewise bled after Hercule has fucked her; both 
are bled in such a way their blood spurts upon our libertines' thighs and 
pricks. Messieurs frig themselves while looking on, and discharge when both 
have fainted. 
    THE 24TH. 113. He cuts off one of her ears. (See to it that you specify 
what these persons do by way of a prelude to their major stunt.) 
    114. He slits her lips and nostrils. 
    115. After having sucked and bitten it, he pierces her tongue with a 
hot iron. 
    116. He tears several nails from her fingers, and also from her toes. 
    117. He cuts off one of her fingers at the last joint. 
    And, upon close questioning, the storyteller having said that, provided 
the wound is dressed at once, such a mutilation has no undesirable 
aftereffects, Durcet straightway cuts the end off one of Adelaide's 
fingers, for his lewd jesting and teasing have been increasingly directed 
against her. His practical joke fetches a discharge from him, his flow of 
fuck is accompanied by unheard-of transports. 
    That same evening, Curval depucelates Augustine's ass, even though she 
is now the Duc's wife. Her anguish, her sufferings. Curval rages against 
her afterward; he conspires with the Duc to take her down to the cellars 
without further delay, and they tell Durcet that if they are granted 
permission to carry out the expedition, they in their turn will allow him 
to dispatch Adelaide at once, but the Bishop delivers an impassioned sermon 
to those truants, and obtains the promise that they will restrain 
themselves yet a little longer for the sake of their own pleasure. Curval 
and the Duc hence limit themselves to giving Augustine a ferocious 
whipping. Both lash her at once. 
    THE 25TH. 118. He distills fifteen or twenty drops of molten lead into 
her mouth and burns her gums with aqua fortis. 
    119. After having had her lick his beshitted ass with her tongue, he 
snips off the end of that same tongue, then, when once she is mutilated, he 
embuggers her. 
    120. He employs a machine involving a hollow steel bit which bores 
holes in the flesh and which, when removed, takes with it a round chunk of 
flesh which is as long as the drill has penetrated; the machine bores on 
automatically if not withdrawn. 
    121. He transforms a boy of ten or twelve into a eunuch. 
    122. With a pair of pliers isolating and raising each nipple, he cuts 
off the same with a pair of scissors. 
    That same evening, Augustine's ass is made generally available. While 
embuggering her, Curval had wished to kiss Constance's breast, and upon 
discharging, he made off with a nipple in his teeth, but as her wound was 
treated and bandaged at once, Messieurs assured one another that the 
accident would have no harmful effect upon the child in her womb. Curval 
says to his colleagues, in answer to their pleasantries upon his mounting 
rage against Constance, that he has no control over the fury she inspires 
in him. 
    When in his turn the Duc embuggers Augustine, his own powerful feelings 
for that beautiful girl are exhaled with incomparable violence: had the 
others not kept an eye upon him, he would have injured her, either while 
mauling her breasts or squeezing her neck with all his strength as he 
discharged. Once again he asks the society to put her in his power, but he 
is requested to wait for Desgranges' narrations. His brother entreats him 
to be patient and abstain until he himself sets an example by dispatching 
Aline; haste, the Bishop points out, makes waste; and why spoil the latter 
part of the holiday by upsetting a schedule admirably designed to guarantee 
them a daily fare of moderation, wherein only happiness lies? However, the 
Duc will not listen to reason, he cannot any longer hold himself in check, 
and so, since he absolutely must torture the lovely girl, he is allowed to 
inflict a light wound upon her arm. He executes it upon the fleshy part of 
her left forearm, sucks blood from the cut he has made, and discharges; 
Augustine is so skillfully patched up that four days later no trace of the 
Duc's teeth marks is to be seen. 
    THE 26TH. 123. He breaks a bottle of thin glass against the face of the 
girl, who is bound and unable to protect herself; before doing so, he 
sucked her mouth with great vigor and sucked her tongue also. 
    124. He tears off both her legs, ties one of her hands behind her back, 
puts a little stick into her free hand, and invites her to defend herself. 
Then he attacks her, wielding his sword with great vigor and dexterity, 
wounds her here and there, and finally discharges upon her wounds. 
    125. He stretches her upon a St. Andrew's cross, goes through the 
ceremony of breaking her, strains but does not dislocate three of her 
limbs, but does definitely break the fourth, either an arm or a leg. 
    126. Pistol in hand, he has her stand facing to the right and lets fly 
with a charge which grazes her two breasts; he aims to shoot away one of 
her little nipples. 
    127. He has her crouch down twenty feet away and present her buttocks; 
he shoots a bullet up her ass. 
    That same evening, the Bishop depucelates Fanny's bum. 
    THE 27TH. 128. The same man of whom Desgranges will speak on the 24th 
of February flogs a pregnant woman upon the belly until she miscarries; she 
must lay the egg in his presence, and he lashes her till she does. 
    129. He very tidily castrates a young lad of sixteen or seventeen after 
having embuggered and whipped him. 
    130. He must have a maiden brought to him, he slices off her clitoris 
with a razor, then deflowers her with a cylinder of heated iron, driving 
the device home with hammer blows. 
    131. This personage performs an abortion when the woman's pregnancy has 
entered its eighth month. He forces her to drink a certain brew which 
brings the child out dead in a trice. Upon other occasions, this libertine 
by his art causes the child to be born from the mother's asshole. But the 
child emerges dead, and the woman's life is gravely imperiled. 
    132. He severs an arm. 
    That evening, Fanny's ass is made generally available, Durcet rescues 
her from a torture his colleagues had been preparing for her; he takes her 
to be his wife, has the Bishop perform the marriage, and repudiates 
Adelaide, who is submitted to the torture originally readied for Fanny. It 
is however a paltry business after all: the Duc embuggers her while Durcet 
breaks her finger. 
    THE 28TH. 133. He cuts off both hands at the wrist and cauterizes the 
wounds with a hot iron. 
    134. He removes the tongue, cutting it at the roots, and cauterizes it 
with a hot iron. 
    135. He amputates one leg, usually having someone else cut it off while 
he embuggers her. 
    136. He extracts all her teeth, replacing each one with a red-hot nail, 
which he secures in place with a hammer; he does this directly after having 
fucked the woman in the mouth. 
    137. He removes one eye. 
    Julie is roundly whipped by everyone that evening and all her fingers 
are pricked with a needle. This latter operation takes place while the 
Bishop, who is passing fond of her, embuggers her. 
    THE 29TH. 138. Allowing molten sealing wax to flow thereupon, he blinds 
and ultimately dissolves first one eye, then the other. 
    139. He neatly slices off one breast, then cauterizes the wound with a 
hot iron. Desgranges will here interject that 'tis this same man who made 
off with the nipple she is missing, and that she is positively certain he 
ate it after having cooked it upon a griddle. 
    140. He amputates both buttocks after having flogged and embuggered 
her. It is believed that he too eats the meat. 
    141. He shaves off both her ears. 
    142. Clips off all the extremities, to wit: ten fingers, ten toes, two 
nipples, one clitoris and the end of the tongue. 
    That evening, Aline, after a vigorous whipping given her by the four 
friends and an embuggery the Bishop performs for the last time, is 
condemned to have a finger on either hand and a toe on either foot cut off 
by each friend. Thus she loses a total of eight parts. 
    THE 30TH. 143. He carves away several chunks of flesh, selecting them 
from divers areas upon her body; he has them roasted and obliges her to eat 
them with him. Desgranges will mention the same man on the 8th and 17th of 
February. 
    144. He cuts off a young boy's four limbs, embuggers the trunk, feeds 
him well and allows him so to live; as the arms and legs were not severed 
too close to the body, the boy lives for quite a while. And the surgeon 
embuggers him steadily for approximately a year. 
    145. He chains one of the girl's hands and secures the chain to the 
wall; he leaves her thus, without food. Near her is a large knife, and just 
beyond her reach sits an excellent meal: if she wishes to eat, she has but 
to cut through her forearm; otherwise, she dies of starvation. Prior to 
this he has embuggered her. He observes her through a window. 
    146. He manacles both mother and daughter; in order that they both 
survive, one has got to get to the food placed not far away: survival, that 
is, means that one must sacrifice a hand. He amuses himself listening to 
them discuss their dilemma, and argue about who is to resolve it. 
    She recounts only four stories, for that evening the thirteenth week's 
festival is to take place. During it, the Duc, acting in the capacity of a 
woman, is married to Hercule, who is to be the husband; acting now as a 
man, the Duc takes Zephyr to be his wife. The young bardash who, as the 
reader is aware, possesses the prettiest ass amongst the eight boys, is 
dressed as a girl, and so clad appears as beautiful as the goddess of love. 
The ceremony is consecrated by the Bishop and transpires within the sight 
of the entire household. The dear little Zephyr surrenders his virginal bum 
to the Duc, who finds all his pleasure therein, but much trouble making a 
successful entry; Zephyr is rather badly torn, and bleeds profusely. 
Hercule fucks the Duc throughout this operation. 
    THE 31ST. 147. He plucks out both her eyes and leaves her locked in a 
room, saying that she has before her what she needs to eat, that she has 
but to get up and search for it. But in order to reach the food she must 
cross a broad plate of iron, which, of course, she cannot see, and which is 
kept heated to a very high temperature. Situated at a window, he amuses 
himself watching how she manages: will she burn herself, or will she prefer 
to perish from hunger? She has been, previously, very soundly whipped. 
    148. He subjects her to the rope torture; this consists in having one's 
four limbs tied to ropes, then one is raised high in the air and suddenly 
dropped from a considerable height, then raised, then dropped; each fall 
dislocates and sometimes breaks the limbs, because one never quite falls to 
the ground, the ropes halting one just a short distance above it. 
    149. He inflicts upon her a quantity of deep wounds into which he pours 
boiling pitch and molten lead. 
    150. The moment after she gives birth to a child, he binds her hand and 
foot, and ties her child not far away from her. The infant wails, she is 
unable to get to it. And thus she must watch it expire. Then he steps up 
and lashes the mother, aiming his whip-strokes at her cunt and managing the 
thing so that the interior of her vagina is well tickled. He himself is 
usually the child's father. 
    151. He gives her copiously to drink, then sews up her cunt, her 
asshole and her mouth as well, and leaves her thus until the water bursts 
through its conduits, or until she dies. 
    (Determine why there is one too many; if one is to be deleted, suppress the last, for I believe I have already 
used it.) 
    That same evening, Messieurs avail themselves of Zephyr's ass, and 
Adelaide is condemned to a rude fustigation, after which a hot iron is 
brought very close to the interior of her vagina, to her armpits, and she 
is slightly scorched beneath each nipple. She endures it all like a heroine 
and frequently invokes God. This further arouses her persecutors. 




PART THE FOURTH
THE 150 MURDEROUS PASSIONS, OR THOSE BELONGING TO THE FOURTH CLASS, 
COMPOSING THE TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS OF FEBRUARY SPENT IN HEARING THE NARRATIONS 
OF MADAME DESGRANGES; INTERSPERSED AMONGST WHICH ARE THE SCANDALOUS DOINGS 
AT THE CHÂTEAU DURING THAT MONTH; ALL BEING SET DOWN IN THE FORM OF A 
JOURNAL. 
(DRAFT) 
 
    Begin by giving a full description of the new situation which exists in 
February; there has been a radical change in the appearance of things. The 
four original wives have been repudiated, but the Bishop has extended his 
protection to Julie, whom he keeps near him as a kind of servant to wait 
upon him; Duclos has been allowed to share her quarters with Constance, 
whose fruit Messieurs are eager to keep from spoiling; Aline and Adelaide 
have been driven out of house and home and now sleep amongst animals 
intended for their Lordships' table. The sultanas Augustine, Zelmire, 
Fanny, and Sophie have replaced the wives and now fulfill all their 
functions, to wit: as wipers in the chapel, as waitresses at the meals, as 
couch companions, as Messieurs' bed companions at night. Apart from the 
fucker, who changes from day to day, Messieurs have: 
    The Duc: Augustine, Zephyr, and Duclos in his bed, together with his 
fucker; he sleeps surrounded by the four of them, and Marie occupies a sofa 
in his bedchamber; 
    Curval: the President likewise sleeps amidst Adonis, Zelmire, a fucker, 
and Fanchon; his room is otherwise empty; 
    Durcet sleeps amidst Hyacinthe, Fanny, a fucker, and Martaine (check 
the foregoing), and he has Louison lie upon a neighboring divan. 
    The Bishop sleeps amidst Celadon, Sophie, a fucker, and Julie; Therèse 
sleeps upon the divan. 
    Which reveals that each of the little menages, Zephyr and Augustine, 
Adonis and Zelmire, Hyacinthe and Fanny, Celadon and Sophie, all of whom 
are married, belong, husband and wife, to a single master. Only four little 
girls remain in the girls' harem, and four in the boys'. Champville sleeps 
in the girls' quarters, Desgranges in the boys' quarters. Aline is in the 
stable, as we pointed out, and Constance is in Duclos' room, but alone 
there since Duclos spends every night in the Duc's bed. 
    Dinner is always served by the four sultanas (by, that is to say, the 
four new wives), and supper by the remaining four sultanas; a quatrain 
always serves coffee; but the quatrains formerly allocated to each niche in 
the auditorium are now reduced in number to one boy and one girl. 
    The reader will recall our mention of the pillars in the auditorium; at 
the beginning of each seance, Aline is attached to one of them, Adelaide to 
the other, their buttocks facing out toward the alcoves, and near each 
pillar is a little table covered with assorted punitive instruments; and so 
it is the two women are at all times ready to receive the lash. Constance 
has permission to sit with the storytellers. Each duenna keeps close to her 
couple, and Julie, completely unclothed, wanders from couch to couch, 
taking orders and executing them upon the spot. As always, one fucker per 
couch. 
    Such is the situation when Desgranges begins her narrations. The 
friends have also ruled, in a special decree, that, during this month, 
Aline, Adelaide, Augustine, and Zelmire shall be surrendered to Messieurs' 
brutal passions, and that Messieurs are at liberty, upon the described day, 
either to immolate them privately or to invite whichever of their friends 
they please to witness the sacrifice; and that with what regards Constance, 
she shall be employed for the celebration of the final week, a full 
explanation of which shall be given in due time and place. Should the Duc 
and Curval, who by this arrangement are to be made widowers, be disposed to 
take another wife to care for their needs until the end of the holiday, 
they shall be able to do so by making a selection from amongst the four 
remaining sultanas. But the pillars will remain ungarnished when the two 
women who garnish them now shall have been bidden a last farewell. 
    Desgranges starts, and after having reminded her auditors that 
henceforth the tales shall be those of an exclusively murderous character, 
she says that she will be careful, as their Lordships have enjoined her to 
be, to enter into the most minute details, and above all to indicate with 
what ordinary caprices these libertine assassins preface their more serious 
exercises; thus, their Lordships will be able to perceive and judge their 
relationships and associations, and to see how an example of simple 
libertinage, rectified and elaborated by an unmannerly and unprincipled 
individual, may lead straight to murder, and to what kind of murder. Then 
she begins. 
    THE 1ST OF FEBRUARY. 1. He used to enjoy amusing himself with a 
beggarwoman who had not had a bit to eat in three days, and his second 
passion is to leave a woman to die of hunger in a dungeon; he keeps a close 
watch upon her and frigs himself while examining her, but does not 
discharge until the day she perishes. 
    2. He maintains her in her prison cell, toying with her for a long 
season, gradually diminishing her daily portion of food; beforehand, he has 
her shit, and eats her turd upon a platter. 
    3. He formerly liked to suck the mouth and swallow its saliva; in 
recent days he has developed the passion of immuring a woman in a dungeon 
with food to last no more than a fortnight; on the thirtieth day, he enters 
her prison and frigs himself upon the corpse. 
    4. First, he would have her kiss, then he would slowly destroy her by 
preventing her from drinking although feeding her all she wanted to eat. 
    5. He would flog, then later kill the woman by depriving her of sleep. 
    That same evening, Michette, after having eaten a big supper, is hung 
head downward until she has vomited everything upon Curval, who stands 
frigging himself beneath her and eating the manna that descends from on 
high. 
    THE 2ND. 6. His first passion was to have her shit into his mouth, and 
he would eat it as it emerged; nowadays he feeds her a diet of worthless 
bread and cheap wine. A month on this fare and she starves to death. 
    7. He was once a great cunt-fucker; now he gives the woman a venereal 
distemper by injection, but of such virulence she croaks in very short 
order. 
    8. As a youth, he was fond of receiving vomit in his mouth, now, by 
means of a certain decoction, he gives her a deathly fever which results in 
her speedy demise. 
    9. He was once wont to gather shit from assholes, presently injects an 
enema containing toxic ingredients dissolved in boiling water or aqua 
fortis. 
    10. Once a famous fustigator, today he binds a woman to a pivot upon 
which she uninterruptedly revolves until dead. 
    That evening, an enema of boiling water is given to Rosette the moment 
after the Duc has finished embuggering her. 
    THE 3RD. 11. He used to like to slap the whore's face; as a mature man, 
he twists her head around until it faces backward. When so adjusted, one 
may simultaneously look at her face and at her buttocks. 
    12. Addicted to bestiality as a youngster, he now likes to have a girl 
depucelated by a stallion while he looks on. She ordinarily dies. 
    13. Once an ass-fucker, he now buries the girl up to her waist and 
maintains her thus till the lower half of her body rots. 
    14. Previously, he was wont to frig her clitoris, and he still does so, 
but more vigorously, employing one of his servants to keep at the work 
until the girl expires. 
    15. Gradually perfecting his passion over the years, a fustigator now 
flogs every part of a woman's body until she perishes. 
    That evening, the Duc would have Augustine, endowed with an unusually 
sensitive clitoris, frigged thereupon by Duclos and Champville, who relieve 
each other at the post and continue the task until the little lady falls 
unconscious. 
    THE 4TH. 16. His earlier passion was to squeeze the whore's neck, in 
later years he would tie the girl by the neck. Before her sits a sumptuous 
meal, but to reach it she must strangle; otherwise she dies of hunger. 
    17. The same man who slew Duclos' sister and whose taste is to subject 
the flesh to a prolonged mauling, abuses the breasts and buttocks with such 
furious violence that his treatment of the whore proves fatal to her. 
    18. The man Martaine mentioned on the 20th of January, he who formerly 
adored bleeding women, now kills them by dint of repeated bloodlettings. 
    19. He whose passion in times past was to make a naked woman run until 
she dropped from exhaustion, in this age of unbridled libertinage shuts her 
up in a steaming bathhouse where she dies of asphyxiation. 
    20. He whom Duclos cited earlier, the gentleman who liked to be wrapped 
in swaddling clothes and fed whoreshit in a spoon rather than pap, swathes 
a girl so tightly in baby's blankets that he kills her. 
    Shortly before the company moved into the auditorium that afternoon, 
Curval was found embuggering one of the scullery maids. He pays the fine; 
the girl is ordered to reappear at the evening's orgies, where the Duc and 
the Bishop embugger her in their turn, and she receives two hundred lashes 
from the hand of each of them. She's a strapping country girl, twenty-five, 
in satisfactory health, and has a fine ass. 
    THE 5TH. 21. His first passion is for bestiality, his second is to sew 
the girl into an untanned donkey's skin, her head protruding; he feeds and 
cares for her until the animal's skin shrinks and crushes her to death. 
    22. He of whom Martaine spoke on the 15th of January and who liked to 
hang a girl for his amusement, currently amuses himself by hanging her by 
her feet until the blood rushing to her head kills her. 
    23. Duclos' libertine of the 27th of November who liked to besot his 
whore, today inserts a funnel into her mouth and floods her with liquids 
till she dies therefrom. 
    24. Once he was wont to mistreat nipples, but has progressed since then 
and now buckles a sort of small iron pot over each breast and lowers her 
over a stove; the iron heats, and she is allowed to perish thus in 
frightful pain. 
    25. His whole delight used to consist in watching a woman swim, but he 
now casts her into a pond and fishes her out half-drowned, then hangs her 
by the feet to encourage the water to drain out of her. Once she has 
returned to her senses, into the pond she goes again, and so on and so 
forth, till she gives up the ghost. 
    Upon that day and at the same hour, another kitchen servant is found 
being embuggered, this time by the Duc; he pays the fine, the servant is 
summoned to the orgies, where everyone cavorts with her, Durcet making good 
use of her mouth, the others of her bum, and even of her cunt, for she is a 
virgin, and she is condemned to receive two hundred lashes from each of her 
employers. She is a girl of eighteen, tall and well made, her hair is 
auburn in color, and she owns a very fair ass. 
    That same evening, Curval utters the opinion that it is a matter of 
extreme urgency that Constance be bled again on account of her pregnancy; 
the Duc embuggers her, and Curval bleeds her while Augustine frigs his 
prick against Zelmire's buttocks and while someone else fucks Zelmire. Upon 
discharging, he executes the puncture; his aim is true. 
    THE 6TH. 26. As a young man he used to kick a woman in the ass, 
tumbling her into a brazier, whence she would emerge before suffering 
excessively. He has lately refined this stunt, now obliges a girl to stand 
upright between two blazing fires: one cooks her in front, the other 
behind; and there she remains until the fat on her body melts. 
    Desgranges announces that she is going to describe murders which, 
bringing on a prompt death, cause very little suffering. 
    27. In former times he would impede respiration by constricting the 
neck with his hands or by blocking the nose and mouth, but these days he 
deposits the whore between four mattresses and she suffocates. 
    28. He of whom Martaine said a few words and who used to allow his 
victim a choice from among three manners of dying (see the 14th of January) 
has of late begun to blow out the whore's brains, denying her any say in 
the matter; he embuggers, and upon discharging, pulls the trigger. 
    29. The man Champville referred to on the 22nd of December as the 
libertine who made the girl dance with the cat, presently flings the whore 
from the top of a tower. She lands on sharp gravel. He discharges upon 
hearing her land. 
    30. That gentleman who liked to throttle his partner while embuggering 
her, and whom Martaine described on the 6th of January, has advanced to the 
stage at which, as he embuggers her, he slips a black silk cord about her 
neck and strangles her while discharging; this delight, says Desgranges, is 
one of the most exquisite a libertine can procure himself. 
    Upon that day, Messieurs celebrate the festival of the fourteenth week, 
and, in the guise of a woman, Curval becomes Bum-Cleaver's wife, and, as a 
man, takes Adonis to be his helpmeet; 'tis not till then that child is 
depucelated, and the event occurs very publicly, while Bum-Cleaver is 
fucking the President. 
    Messieurs besot themselves at supper. And they flog Zelmire and 
Augustine about the loins, the buttocks, the thighs, the belly, the cunt, 
and the groin, then Curval has Zelmire fucked by Adonis, his new wife, and 
embuggers both of them one after the other. 
    THE 7TH. 31. He once liked to fuck a drowsy woman; he does much better 
now: he kills her with a strong dose of opium and encunts her during her 
death-sleep. 
    32. The same roue she referred to very recently, and who subjects the 
whore to a series of duckings, has still another passion: tying a stone to 
her neck, he drowns the woman. 
    33. Whereas once he was content to slap her face, now he carries 
matters further: he pours molten lead into her ear while she is asleep. 
    34. He was fond of whipping her face; Champville spoke of him on the 
30th of December (verify that); but now he dispatches the girl with a quick 
hammer blow upon the temple. 
    35. This libertine would previously allow a candle to burn out in a 
woman's anus; today, he attaches her to a lightning rod during a 
thunderstorm and awaits a fortuitous stroke. 
    36. A sometime fustigator. He has her bend over with her behind facing 
the muzzle of a small piece of artillery. The ball enters her ass. 
    That day 'tis the Bishop they discover with his prick lodged in the 
third kitchen servant's asshole. He pays the fine, the Duc and Curval 
embugger and cunt-fuck her, for she is also a virgin, then she is given a 
total of eight hundred stripes, two hundred by each friend. She is Swiss, 
nineteen, very fair of skin, very plump, and has a splendid ass. The cooks 
complain and say that the service will not be able to continue any longer 
if Messieurs go on fussing about with the help, and the society agrees to a 
truce extending until March. 
    Rosette loses a finger that evening, and the wound is cauterized with 
fire. She is sandwiched between Curval and the Duc during the operation: 
one fucks her ass, the other her cunt. Adonis' ass is made generally 
available that same evening; and so it is that the Duc cunt-fucks one 
servant and Rosette at the orgies and ass-fucks the same servant, ass-fucks 
Rosette too, and Adonis. He is tired. 
    THE 8TH. 37. His whole delight once lay in beating a woman's entire 
body with a bull's pizzle; 'twas to him Martaine alluded as the man who 
strained all four of his victim's limbs on the rack and broke but one of 
them. He likes now thoroughly to break the woman on the wheel, but he 
chokes her to death when he has finished exercising her. 
    38. Martaine's gentleman who would feign a decapitation and have the 
woman snatched from beneath the blade at the last moment, now severs her 
head in all good faith. He discharges as the blow falls. He frigs himself. 
    39. Martaine's libertine of the 30th of January who was wont to perform 
an extensive scarification, now consigns his victims to perish in dungeons. 
    40. He used to be a whipper of pregnant women's bellies, has latterly 
perfected that by causing an enormous weight to fall on the pregnant 
woman's belly, thereby crushing her and her fruit at one stroke. 
    41. Formerly, he was known to be fond of the sight of a girl's bare 
neck, which he would squeeze and molest somewhat; that mild passion has 
been replaced by the insertion of a pin in a certain spot upon the woman's 
neck. The pin kills her at once. 
    42. At the beginning he would gently burn various parts of the body 
with a candle flame, more recently he has begun to hurl women into a 
glowing furnace where they are consumed instantly. 
    Durcet, his prick very stiff and who during the storytelling has 
ventured forth twice to flog Adelaide awaiting him at her pillar, proposes 
to lay her lengthwise in the fire, and after she has had sufficient time to 
quake over an idea Messieurs would be nothing loath to put into execution, 
they burn her nipples for the sake of their convenience; Durcet, her 
husband, burns one, her father, Curval, burns the other. This exciting 
operation causes both to discharge. 
    THE 9TH. 43. In his young years a pin-pricker, he has got himself a 
more formidable weapon: discharges while thrice driving a dagger into the 
woman's heart. 
    44. He used to adore burning gunpowder in the cunt, but has since 
improved his passion: he attaches a slender but attractive girl to a large 
rocket, the fuse is ignited, the rocket ascends, then returns to earth with 
the girl still attached. 
    45. The same personage who put gunpowder in all the orifices of a 
woman's body, now wedges cartridges into them; they explode simultaneously, 
sending the members flying in every direction. 
    46. First passion: he enjoyed secreting an emetic in the girl's food, 
unbeknownst to her; his second passion: he mixes a certain powder with her 
snuff, or sprinkles it on some flowers, she inhales and straightway falls 
dead. 
    47. First passion: he would flog her breasts and neck; refinement 
thereof: he aims a blow of a crowbar at her throat, it fells her forever. 
    48. Duclos spoke of him on the 27th of November, Martaine on the 14th 
of January (verify the dates): the whore enters and shits before the rake, 
he scolds her; brandishing a whip, he pursues her, she thinks to take 
refuge in a loft. A door opens, she spies a little stairway, believes she 
will be safe, rushes up the steps, but one of them gives way and she 
plunges into a large vat of boiling water; she dies, scalded, drowned, 
asphyxiated. His tastes are previously to have the woman shit and to lash 
her while she is doing so. 
    Curval had solicited and obtained shit from Zelmire that morning; now, 
directly the aforementioned tale is concluded, the Duc demands further shit 
from her. She cannot produce any; she is promptly condemned to have her ass 
pricked with a golden needle until it is covered with blood; in that it is 
the Duc whose interests have suffered as a result of her refusal, he is the 
one who recovers damages. 
    Curval requests shit of Zephyr; the latter replies, saying that the Duc 
had him shit that morning. This the Duc denies, Duclos is called to give 
evidence, she supports Blangis' contention even though it is false. 
Consequently, Curval has the right to punish Zephyr, despite the fact he is 
the Duc's bardash, just as the Duc has punished Zelmire, who is Curval's 
wife. The President flogs Zephyr until the lad streams blood, then tweaks 
his nose six times; the tweaks fetch forth more blood, and that makes the 
Duc roar with laughter. 
    THE 10TH. Desgranges says that she is now going to discuss murders of 
imposture and duplicity in which the manner is of principal significance; 
that is to say, the murder itself is merely incidental. Wherewith, says 
she, poisonings will be presented first. 
    49. A man whose caprice consisted in bum-fuckery and in no other kind, 
now envenoms all his wives; he is presently on his twenty-second. Never 
does he fuck them save in the ass, nor have they ever been deflowered 
otherwise. 
    50. A bugger invites a number of friends to a banquet, and with each 
succeeding course a few of them are stricken with stomach cramps which 
prove fatal. 
    51. Duclos spoke of him on the 26th of November, Martaine on the 10th 
of January; he is a bugger, pretends that it is relief he is giving the 
poor, distributes food, but 'tis poisoned. 
    52. A treacherous bugger regularly employs a drug which, sprinkled on 
the ground, very wonderfully kills whosoever walks thereupon; he sprinkles 
it about rather frequently, and over wide areas. 
    53. A bugger, equally skilled in alchemy, uses another substance which 
causes death after inconceivable torture; the death throes last a good two 
weeks, and no doctor has ever been able to diagnose or treat the ailment. 
He takes the keenest pleasure in paying you a visit while you are in the 
toils. 
    54. A sodomizer of men and women makes use of yet another powder which 
deprives you of your senses and renders you as if dead. And such you are 
believed to be, you are buried, and full of despair, you die in your 
coffin, into which you have no sooner been placed than you regain 
consciousness. He endeavors to find the exact place you have been buried, 
to place an ear to the ground and listen for a few screams; if indeed he 
hears your cries, 'tis enough to make him swoon with pleasure. He thuswise 
slew part of his family. 
    While joking and making merry that evening, Messieurs give Julie a 
powder concealed in her food, which causes her frightful cramps; they 
advise her that she is poisoned, she believes it, she wails, is beside 
herself. While watching her convulsions, the Duc has Augustine frig him 
directly opposite Julie. Augustine has the great misfortune of allowing the 
repuce to slip back over the Duc's glans, and that is something which 
displeases the Duc extremely: he was just about to discharge, the girl's 
carelessness prevents it. He declares he is going to cut off one of that 
buggress' fingers and, as good as his word, does so, slicing a digit from 
the hand that failed him, and while cutting, he has his daughter Julie, 
still persuaded she is poisoned, crawl up to him and complete his 
discharge. Julie is cured that same evening. 
    THE 11TH. 55. A consummate bugger would frequently dine at the home of 
friends or acquaintances and would never fail to poison the individual his 
host cherished most dearly amongst all living creatures. He employed a 
powder which finally slew after causing two days of atrocious agony. 
    56. An erstwhile breast-abuser has perfected his passion: he poisons 
infants being suckled by their nurses. 
    57. He once used to love to receive back into his mouth milk enemas he 
had injected into his partner's rectum; his later passion: he administers 
toxic injections which kill while causing horrible spasms and colics. 
    58. A crafty bugger of whom she will have occasion to say more on the 
13th and the 26th, used to love to set fire to poorhouses, and would always 
see to it that a quantity of persons were consumed, above all children. 
    59. Another bugger liked to cause women to die in childbirth; he would 
come to pay his respects, bringing along a powder whose odor would cause 
spasms and convulsions ending in death. 
    60. The man to whom Duclos referred during her twenty-eighth evening 
enjoys watching a woman bear a child; he murders it immediately it emerges 
from the womb and within full view of the mother, and does so while 
feigning to caress it. 
    That evening, Adelaide is first dealt a hundred lashes by each friend, 
and then, when she is well bloodied, shit is demanded of her; she gave some 
that morning to Curval, who swears 'tis not so. Consequently, they burn her 
two breasts, the palm of each hand, spill drops of molten sealing wax upon 
her thighs and belly, fill her navel therewith, burn her pubic hair after 
having doused it with cognac. The Duc attempts to pick a quarrel with 
Zelmire, and the President severs a finger from each of her hands. 
Augustine is scourged about the cunt and asshole. 
    THE 12TH. Messieurs assemble in the morning and decide that the four 
governesses, who are no longer of much use to the society and whose 
functions the four storytellers shall henceforth be perfectly able to carry 
out, may just as well provide the society with a little amusement; 
Messieurs therefore decree that the elders shall be martyrized one after 
another, the first sacrifice being scheduled for the evening of that same 
day. The four storytellers are invited to replace the elders; they accept 
upon condition they shall suffer no ill-treatment. Messieurs promise to 
subject them to none. 
    61. The three friends, d'Aucourt, the abbot, and Desprès, of whom 
Duclos spoke on the 12th of November, are now living abroad and still 
enjoying each other's company, and this is one of their common passions: 
they require a woman whose pregnancy is in its eighth or begun its ninth 
month, they open her belly, snatch out the child, burn it before the 
mother's eyes, and in its place substitute a package containing sulphur and 
quicksilver, which they set afire, then stitch the belly up again, leaving 
the mother thus to perish in the midst of incredible agonies, while they 
look on and have themselves frigged by the girl they have with them. 
(Verify the girl's name.) 
    62. He was fond of depucelating, has gradually broadened his scope of 
activity: he has a great number of children by several women, then, when 
they reach the age of five or six, he depucelates them, boys and girls 
alike, and directly he has fucked them, throws them into a blazing oven. Or 
he sometimes throws them in at the same moment he discharges. 
    63. The man Duclos mentioned on the 27th of November, Martaine on the 
15th of January, and she herself on the 5th of February, whose taste was to 
play at hanging, to see hanged, etc., this same fellow, I say, hides some 
of his personal effects in his domestics' wardrobes and declares he has 
been robbed. He strives to have his servants hanged, and if he succeeds 
goes to watch the spectacle; if not, he locks them in a room and strangles 
them to death. While operating, he discharges. 
    64. An inveterate shit-lover, he of whom Duclos spoke on the 14th of 
November, has a specially prepared commode at his home; he engages his 
intended victim to sit down upon it, and once the victim is seated, the 
seat buckles, gives way, and precipitates the sitter into a very deep ditch 
filled with shit, in which evironment she is left to die. 
    65. A man to whom Martaine made reference and who would amuse himself 
watching a girl fall from a ladder, has perfected his passion thus (but 
find out which man) : 
    He situates the girl upon a little trestle on the edge of a deep ditch 
filled with water; on the farther side of it is a wall which seems to be 
all the more inviting, what for the ladder leaning against it. But to reach 
the ladder she must cross the moat, and she becomes all the more willing to 
spring into the water as the fire burning behind the trestle moves 
gradually closer to her. If she hesitates too long, the fire will reach 
her, consume her, and as she does not know how to swim, she will be drowned 
if she plunges into the water. While she is considering what to do, the 
fire approaches, and she finally elects to struggle with a different 
element and endeavor to get to the wall. It frequently happens that she 
drowns; if so, the game is over. But if by good fortune she reaches the 
other bank and then the ladder, and starts to climb it, toward the top 
there is a rung which breaks beneath her weight and she drops into a hole 
covered over with a thin layer of earth, and the hole contains a bed of 
live coals upon which she perishes. Hard by the scene, the libertine 
observes it with the keenest interest, frigging himself industriously. 
    66. The same man Duclos spoke of on the 29th of November, the same who 
bumwise depucelated Martaine when a little girl of five, and also the same 
with whom Desgranges announces she will conclude her narrations (the hell 
episode), this individual, I say, embuggers the prettiest girl of sixteen 
or eighteen the procuress can find for him. Sensing his crisis about to 
arrive, he releases a spring, upon the bare and completely unadorned neck 
of the girl descends a machine furnished with steel teeth; the machine 
begins to move laterally and gradually saws through the pinioned neck while 
the libertine occupies himself with completing his discharge. Which always 
takes a very long time. 
    That very evening Messieurs discover the intrigue involving Augustine 
and one of the subaltern fuckers; he has not yet fucked her, but to attain 
his ends has suggested that they both escape from the castle, and he has 
outlined to her a very easy way to do so. Augustine confesses that she was 
about to grant him what he sought from her in order to save herself from a 
place where she believes her life to be in danger. 'Tis Fanchon who 
discovers and reports everything. The traitorous quadrumvirate leap upon 
the fucker without warning, bind him hand and foot, and take him down to 
the cellars, where the Duc embuggers him with extreme vigor and without 
pomade, while the President saws through his neck and the other two apply 
red-hot irons to all parts of his body. 
    This scene transpires directly after dinner is over and hence coffee is 
omitted that day; the work completed, everyone repairs to the auditorium as 
usual, then to supper, and amongst themselves Messieurs debate whether, in 
return for having disclosed the conspiracy, they ought not accord Fanchon a 
reprieve, for their decision that morning was to maltreat her the same 
evening. The Bishop declares himself against sparing her, and says that it 
would be unworthy of them to yield to the sentiment of gratitude, and that, 
for his part, he will always be seen to favor any decision likely to afford 
the society one pleasure more, just as he will always vote against any 
motion apt to deprive it of a pleasure. And so, after having punished 
Augustine for lending herself to the subversive scheme, first by obliging 
her to watch her lover's execution, then by embuggering her and making her 
believe her head would be cut off as well, next by actually pulling out two 
of her teeth, an operation performed by the Duc while Curval was 
embuggering that beautiful girl, finally by giving her a sound whipping, 
after all that, I say, Fanchon is led into the arena, made to shit, given a 
hundred lashes by each of the friends, and then the Duc deftly shaves off 
her left nipple. She raises a storm, criticizing their behavior toward her 
and describing it as unjust. "Were it just," says the Duc, wiping his 
razor, "it would surely fail to give us an erection." Whereupon they dress 
the old whore's wounds, eager to preserve her for further ordeals. 
    Their Lordships perceive that indeed there had been faint but definite 
rebellious stirrings amongst the subaltern fuckers; the prompt sacrifice of 
one of them has, however, thoroughly quelled their murmurs. Like Fanchon, 
the three other duennas are divested of all responsibility, removed from 
office, and replaced by the four storytellers and Julie. They tremble, do 
the old dames; but by what shifts are they to escape their fate? 
    THE 13TH. 67. A great connoisseur of the ass, he declares his love for 
a girl and, having arranged a boating party, lures her upon the water in a 
small boat, the which has been prepared for the outing, springs a leak, 
founders; the girl is drowned. He sometimes pursues his objective by 
different means: will, for example, lead a girl out upon a high balcony, 
have her lean upon the railing, which gives way; and once again the girl 
dies. 
    68. A man, while making his apprenticeship in life, was content first 
to whip and then to embugger; now, having reached a mature age, entices the 
girl to enter a specially prepared room; a trap door yields beneath her 
step, she falls into a cellar where the rake awaits her; he plunges a knife 
into her breasts, her cunt, and into her asshole as she lies stunned by her 
fall. Next, he casts her, dead or still alive, into another cellar, over 
which a stone drops into place; she tumbles upon a heap of other corpses, 
and she expires in a great fit if life has not already departed her sore-
beset frame. And he is very careful to administer delicate stabs, for he 
would prefer that she live a little and finally perish in the cellar 
mentioned latterly. Prior to all this, he of course embuggers and flogs her 
and discharges; 'tis coolly and with utmost method he proceeds to her 
undoing. 
    69. A bugger has the girl mount astride an untamed, unbroken horse 
which unseats her, drags her along a rocky terrain, and finally pitches her 
over a precipice. 
    70. Martaine's hero of the 18th of January whose juvenile passion was 
to distribute little mounds of gunpowder upon the girl's body, has made 
significant progress. He lays the girl in a special bed; when properly 
tucked in, the bed gives way, dropping her into a large brazier of live 
coals, but she is able to scramble out of it; however, he is standing by 
and, as she repeats her attempts to escape the fire, he drives her back, 
wielding a pitchfork and with it aiming stout blows at her belly. 
    71. The gentleman she mentioned on the 11th, who likes to burn down 
poorhouses, endeavors to lure a beggar, whether a man or a woman, from out 
of one and into his own home, upon the pretense of bestowing charity; he 
embuggers his victim, then breaks his back and leaves him thus discomfited 
to die in a dungeon. 
    72. He who was wont to defenestrate a woman, hurling her upon a dung 
heap, the same man of whom Martaine spoke, by way of second passion 
executes the following one: he allows the girl to sleep in a room she is 
acquainted with and whose window she knows to be not far above the ground; 
she is given opium, when in a deep slumber she is conveyed to another 
chamber, identical with the first but having a window high above the ground 
which, on this side of the house, is strewn with sharp rocks. Next, the 
libertine enters where she lies sleeping, makes a dreadful noise, terrifies 
her; she is informed that she is about to die. Knowing the drop from the 
window to the ground to be short, she leaps through it, but falls thirty 
feet and lands upon the murderous rocks, killing herself. No one has so 
much as laid a finger upon her. 
    In the character of a woman, that great histrionic, the Bishop, marries 
Antinoüs, whose role is that of a husband, and also weds Celadon, whom he 
takes to be his wife, and 'tis that evening the child is embuggered for the 
first time. 
    This ceremony celebrates the festival of the fifteenth week; to 
complete the holiday, the prelate wishes to expose Aline to some severe 
vexations, for his libertine rage against her has been quietly but steadily 
mounting: she is hanged, then quickly cut down, but while seeing her 
however briefly aloft, everyone discharges. Durcet opens her veins, this 
treatment restores her to life; the next day she appears none the worse for 
wear, but suspension has added an inch to her height; she relates what she 
experienced during the ordeal. The Bishop, for whom everything is an 
occasion of jollity and everyone the object of game that day, cuts one of 
old Louison's nipples clean off her breast; whereupon the other two duennas 
see very clearly what their fate is to be. 
    THE 14TH. 73. A man whose simple taste was to flog a girl, perfects it 
by every day removing morsels of flesh the size of a pea from the girl's 
body, but her wounds are not dressed, and thus she perishes over a low 
fire, as it were. 
    Desgranges announces that she will now deal with exceedingly painful 
murders wherein 'tis the extreme cruelty which comprises the main element; 
Messieurs more strongly than ever urge her to furnish abundant details. 
    74. He who was fond of letting blood daily relieves his victim of a 
half ounce of it, continuing till she is dead. Messieurs greet this example 
with hearty applause. 
    75. He who was wont to prick the ass with many pins every day 
administers a more or less superficial gash with a poignard. The blood is 
stanched, but the wound is not treated, neither does it mend, and thus 'tis 
a slow death she dies. A fustigator (75) quietly and slowly saws off all 
four limbs, one after the other. 
    76. The Marquis de Mesanges, of whom Duclos spoke in connection with 
the shoemaker Petignon's daughter, bought by the Marquis from Duclos, and 
whose first passion was to undergo four hours of flogging without 
discharging, for a second passion places a little girl in the hands of a 
giant fellow who holds the child by the head over a large charcoal brazier 
which burns her very slowly; the victims must be virgins. 
    77. His first passion: little by little to burn the breasts and 
buttocks with the flame of a match; his second: over every part of the 
girl's body to plant a forest of sulphur-coated slivers, which he lights 
one by one. He watches her die in this way. 
    "Nor is there anymore painful way to die," observes the Duc, who then 
confesses to having surrendered himself to this infamous pastime, and to 
having discharged vigorously thanks to it. They say that the patient lives 
six hours, sometimes eight. 
    Celadon's ass is made generally available that evening; the Duc and 
Curval indulge themselves heavily. Constance's pregnancy is still on the 
President's mind; he suggests that she be bled, and bleeds her himself 
while discharging in Celadon's ass, then he lops off one of Therèse's 
nipples while embuggering Zelmire, and the Duc sodomizes the duenna during 
the amputation. 
    THE 15TH. 78. Once beguiled by the charms of a mouth to suck and saliva 
to swallow, he is now of sterner stuff: every day he inserts a funnel into 
the girl's mouth and pours a small dose of molten lead down her throat; she 
gives up the ghost on the ninth day. 
    79. First a finger-twister, he currently breaks all her limbs, tears 
out her tongue, gouges out her eyes, and leaves her thus to live, 
diminishing her sustenance day by day. 
    80. A perpetrator of sacrilege, the second one Martaine mentioned on 
the 3rd of January, he secures a beautiful youth to a tall cross, binding 
him with cords and leaving him there as food for ravens. 
    81. An armpit-sniffer and -fucker, to whom Duclos alluded, binds a 
woman hand and foot and hangs her by a rope looped under her arms; he goes 
every day to prick some part of her body so that the blood will attract 
flies; her death is by slow degrees. 
    82. A passionate admirer of asses rectifies his worship: he now seals a 
girl in an underground cave where she has food to last three days; before 
leaving her, he inflicts several wounds upon her body, thuswise to render 
her death more painful. He wishes to have them virgins and spends a week 
embracing their asses before organizing their destruction. 
    83. Formerly he loved to fuck very youthful mouths and asses; his later 
improvement consists in snatching out the heart of a living girl, widening 
the space that organ occupied, fucking the warm hole, replacing the heart 
in that pool of blood and fuck, sewing up the wound, and leaving the girl 
to her fate, without help of any kind. In which case the wait is not long. 
    Still wroth with the lovely Constance, Curval maintains that there is 
no reason under the sun why one cannot successfully bear a child even 
though one has a broken limb, and therefore they fracture that unlucky 
creature's arm the same evening. Durcet slices off one of Marie's nipples 
after she has been well warmed by the lash and made copiously to shit. 
    THE 16TH. 84. A fustigator refines his passion: he learns and then 
practices the art of gently removing flesh from bones; he then extracts the 
marrow, usually by sucking it out, and pours molten lead into the cavity. 
    At this point the Duc loudly exclaims that he'll not fuck another ass 
while he lives if that isn't the very ordeal he has had in mind for his 
beloved Augustine; that poor girl, whom Blangis has been embuggering for 
some time, utters cries and sheds a torrent of tears. And as thanks to her 
misbehavior she interferes with his discharge and frustrates it 
effectively, he withdraws, takes hold of his engine in one hand, and while 
with the other he gives her a dozen slaps which resound through that wing 
of the castle, he manages his discharge very satisfactorily by himself. 
    85. A bugger uses an ingenious machine to chop the girl into small 
pieces: this is a Chinese torture. 
    86. Weary of his early fondness for girls' pucelages, his latest 
passion is to impale a girl upon the point of a sharp pickaxe introduced 
into her cunt; there she sits, as if upon a horse, he ties a cannon ball to 
each of her legs, the pick works deeper, and she is left to her own devices 
and a slow death. 
    87. A fustigator flays the girl thrice over; he soaks her fourth layer 
of skin with a devouring escharotic which brings about death accompanied by 
hideous agonies. 
    88. His first passion was to sever a finger; his second is to pluck up 
some flesh with a pair of red-hot tongs, to cut off the flesh with a pair 
of scissors, then to burn the wound. He is quite apt to spend as long as 
four or five days whittling away a girl's body piecemeal, and she 
ordinarily dies while the cruel operation is still advancing. 
    Sophie and Celadon have been found amusing themselves together and are 
punished that evening; both are whipped over their entire bodies by the 
Bishop, whose chattels they are. Sophie loses two fingers to the shears, 
Celadon as many; but he recovers very quickly. The Bishop is no less eager 
to use them in his pleasures, however they be maimed. 
    Fanchon returns to the center of the stage. After having been beaten 
with a bull's pizzle, the soles of her feet are burned, each thigh, before 
and behind, is burned also, her forehead too, and each hand as well, and 
Messieurs extract all her remaining teeth. The Duc's prick is almost 
continually wedged into her ass throughout this lengthy operation. 
    Mention that it has been prescribed by law that a subject's buttocks 
shall be left intact until the day the said subject reaches the end of his 
career. 
    THE 17TH. 89. Martaine's gentleman of the 30th of January and the same 
one she herself described on the 5th of February, pares away a girl's 
breasts and buttocks, eats them, and upon her wounds puts plasters which so 
violently burn the flesh that they are her undoing. He also forces her to 
eat her own flesh, which he has had grilled. 
    90. A bugger cooks up a little girl in a double boiler. 
    91. A bugger: he has her roasted alive on a spit directly after 
embuggering her. 
    92. A man whose initial passion was to have little girls and boys 
embuggered in his presence by massive and ponderous pricks, impales the 
girl, a spear in her ass, and leaves her thus to die while he studies her 
contortions. 
    93. Another bugger: attaches a woman to a wheel, it is then set in 
motion and, without having done her any previous harm, he allows her to die 
a very pretty death. 
    That evening, the Bishop, his spirits in a great ferment, wishes to 
have Aline tormented, his rage against her has reached its fever pitch. She 
makes her appearance naked, he has her shit and embuggers her, then, 
without discharging, he withdraws in a towering fury from that enchanting 
ass and injects a rinse of boiling water into it, obliging her to squirt it 
out at once, while it is still boiling hot, upon Therèse's face. After 
that, Messieurs hack off all the fingers and toes Aline has left, break 
both her arms and burn them with red-hot pokers. She is next flogged, 
beaten, and slapped, then the Bishop, still further aroused, cuts off one 
of her nipples, and discharges. 
    Wherewith they transfer their attentions to Therèse, the interior of 
her vagina is seared, her nostrils, tongue, feet, and hands are all burned 
too; then she is given six hundred lashes with a bull's pizzle. Out come 
the rest of her teeth, fire is introduced into her throat. A witness to 
these harsh proceedings, Augustine falls to weeping; the Duc lashes her 
belly and cunt until he has drawn a suitable amount of blood therefrom. 
    THE 18TH. 94. A flesh-sacrifier in his early days, his adult 
entertainment consists in quartering girls by bending four saplings, 
attaching an arm or leg to each, and releasing the trees, which spring back 
erect. 
    95. A fustigator suspends her from a machine which lowers a girl into 
and immediately lifts her out of a fire, then repeats the operation until 
there is very little left of the patient. 
    96. He once loved to extinguish candles by snuffing them out upon 
flesh; today, he envelopes her in sulphur and uses her for a torch, being 
careful to prevent the fumes for choking her. 
    97. A sodomist: rips the intestines from a young boy and a young girl, 
puts the boy's into the girl, inserts the girl's into the boy's body, 
stitches up the incisions, ties them back to back to a pillar which 
supports them both, and he watches them perish. 
    98. A man who was fond of inflicting light burns, improves his passion: 
he now roasts his victim upon a grill, turning him over and over again. 
    Michette is, that evening, exposed to the libertines' fury; all four 
begin by whipping her, then each tears out one of her teeth, they cut off 
four fingers (each friend amputates one), her thighs are burned in four 
places, two in front and two behind, the Duc manhandles one of her breasts 
until it is truly unrecognizable, sodomizing Giton in the meantime. 
    Louison is next on the bill of fare; she is made to shit, she is given 
eight hundred strokes with the bull's pizzle, she is divested of all her 
teeth, her tongue is burned, as is her asshole, her vagina, and her 
remaining nipple, and so are six places upon her thighs. 
    When everyone has retired to bed for the night, the Bishop goes in 
search of his brother, they wake Desgranges and Duclos, and the four of 
them take Aline down into the cellars; the Bishop embuggers her, the Duc 
embuggers her, they pronounce the death sentence, and by means of excessive 
torments which last until daybreak, they execute it. Upon returning, they 
exchange words of unqualified praise for these two storytellers and advise 
their colleagues to undertake no serious projects without their help. 
    THE 19TH. 99. He places the woman so that the base of her spine bears 
upon the sharpened head of a tall post, her four limbs are held in the air 
only by light cords; the effects of her suffering make the lecher laugh 
incontinently, the torture is frightful. 
    100. A man who used to enjoy cutting small steaks from the girl's rump 
has become absolutely a butcher: he has the girl sandwiched between two 
heavy planks, then slowly and carefully sawed in two. 
    101. An embuggerer of both sexes has brother and sister fetched in; he 
declares to the brother that he is about to die a horrible death, and shows 
the young man all the deployed tackle he proposes to use; however, the 
libertine continues, he will save the brother's life if he will fuck his 
sister and strangle her at once. The young man agrees, and while he fucks 
his sister, the libertine embuggers now one of them, now the other. Then 
the brother, fearing for his life, deprives her sister of hers, and the 
moment he completes that operation, both he and his dead sister tumble 
through a trap door into a capacious charcoal brazier, wherein the 
libertine wathces them be consumed. 
    102. A bugger compels a father to fuck his daughter in his presence. 
Next, the father holds the daughter, the bugger sodomizes her; after which 
he informs the father that the girl absolutely has to perish, but that he 
has the alternatives of killing her himself by strangling her, which will 
cause her little suffering, or, in that other case, if her prefers not to 
kill his daughter, then he, the libertine, will do the work, but the father 
shall have to witness it all, and his child's agonies will be atrocious. 
    Rather than see her undergo frightful tortures, the father decides to 
kill his daughter with a noose of black silk, but while he is preparing to 
dispatch her, he is seized, bound, and before his eyes his child is flayed 
alive, then rolled upon burning iron nails, then cast into a brazier, and 
the father is strangled; this, says the libertine, is to teach him a lesson 
not to be so eager to choke the life out of his own children, for 'tis 
barbaric. Afterward, he is dumped into the same brazier wherein his 
daughter perished. 
    103. A great devotee of asses and of the lash brings together mother 
and daughter. He tells the girl that he is going to kill her mother if she, 
the girl, does not consent to the sacrifice of both her hands; the little 
one agrees, they are severed at the wrist. Whereupon these two creatures 
are separated; a rope suspended from the ceiling is slipped around the 
girl's neck, she stands upon a stool; another cord runs from the stool into 
the next room and the mother is requested to hold the end. She is then 
invited to tug on the cord: she pulls it without knowing what she is doing, 
she is led directly into the first room to contemplate her work, and during 
that moment of her keenest distress, she is smitten down by a saber blow 
aimed at her head from behind. 
    Jealous of the pleasure the two brothers had the night before, Durcet, 
that evening, is moved to suggest that they vex Adelaide, whose turn, he 
assures the society, is soon to come. And so Curval, her father, and 
Durcet, her husband, worry her thighs with white-hot thongs while the Duc's 
unlubricated member sounds her ass. The tip of her tongue is pierced, the 
ends of both her ears are shorn away, with the aid of instruments Messieurs 
dispossess her of four teeth, and then she is given a savage whipping. That 
same evening, the Bishop bleeds Sophie while her dearly beloved friend, 
Adelaide, watches the blood issue from the child's veins; the fountains are 
kept turned on until Sophie loses consciousness; as he bleeds her, the 
Bishop embuggers her, remaining in her ass throughout the operation. 
    While Curval is sodomizing him, Narcisse loses a pair of fingers, then 
Marie is hailed into court, red-hot irons are thrust into her cunt and 
asshole, more irons are applied to six places upon her thighs, upon her 
clitoris, her tongue, upon her one remaining breast, and out come the 
remainder of her teeth. 
    THE 20TH. 104. Champville's of the 5th of December, the man who was 
wont to have the mother prostitute her son and hold him while he embuggered 
the lad, improves his taste by bringing the mother and son together. He 
tells the mother that he is about to kill her, but will spare her if she 
will murder her son. In case she refuses to do so, he slits the boy's 
throat before the woman's eyes. Or if she consents: then she is bound to 
her son's dead body and left quietly to meditate and finally to die. 
    105. A very incestuous personage assembles two sisters after having 
embuggered both of them; he binds them to a machine, each has a knife in 
her hand: the machine is set in motion, the girls are brought suddenly 
together and mutually kill each other. 
    106. Another devotee of incest requires a mother and her four children. 
They are locked into a room; he observes them through a small barred 
window. He gives them nothing to eat in order to study the effects of 
famine upon this woman, and to discover which of her children she will eat 
first. 
    107. Champville's of the 29th of December, who liked to flog pregnant 
women, calls for a mother and daughter, both of whom must be gravid: they 
are tied to a pair of steel plates one set above the other; the women face 
one another; the machine starts, the jaws of the vise close with great 
speed and power, the two women are ground to dust, together with their 
fruit. 
    108. A very buggerish gentleman entertains himself in the following 
manner: he assembles lover and mistress: 
    "There is in all the world but one person who stands in the way of your 
happiness," says he, taking the lover aside; "I am going to put that 
individual in your power." 
    And he leads him into an obscurely lit chamber containing a bed; upon 
it someone lies asleep. Greatly aroused, the young man takes dagger in hand 
and stabs his enemy. When he has had done, he is permitted to recognize his 
mistress' dead body: 'twas she he slew; he kills himself in despair, or if 
he does not, the libertine kills him with a shot from a rifle, fired at a 
distance, not daring to enter the room with the furious young man who still 
has a weapon in his hand. Previously, he fucked the youth and his beloved 
too, they singly yielded to him in the hope he would help them and bring 
them together, it is after having enjoyed them he rids the world of them. 
    In celebration of the sixteenth week, Durcet, as a woman, marries 
Invictus, who enacts a masculine role; and as a man he takes Hyacinthe to 
be his wife; the ceremonies are performed that evening and, by way of 
festivity, Durcet wishes to torment Fanny, his feminine wife. Consequently, 
her arms are burned, so are her thighs in six separate places, two teeth 
are extracted from her mouth, she is flogged; Hyacinthe, who loves her and 
who is her husband thanks to the voluptuous arrangements hitherto 
described. Hyacinthe, I say, is obliged to shit into Fanny's mouth, and she 
to eat the turd. 
    The Duc pulls out one of Augustine's teeth and immediately afterward 
fucks her in the mouth. Fanchon reappears, she is bled, and while blood 
flows from her arm, her arm is broken; next, they remove her toenails and 
sever the fingers from both her hands. 
    THE 21ST. She announces that the following examples are of buggers who 
wish to commit exclusively masculine murders. 
    109. He buries the muzzle of a shotgun in the boy's ass, the weapon is 
loaded with buckshot and he has just finished fucking the lad. He pulls the 
trigger; the gun and his prick discharge simultaneously. 
    110. He obliges the lad to watch his mistress being mutilated, and to 
eat her flesh, principally her buttocks, breasts, and heart. He has the 
option of eating these meats, or of dying of hunger. As soon as he has 
devoured them, if 'tis that he elects to do, the libertine inflicts several 
deep wounds upon him and leaves him thus to bleed to death; if he abstains 
from eating, he then starves to death. 
    111. He tears off the youth's testicles and, a short while later, 
serves them up to him in a ragout, then, in place of the stolen treasure, 
substitutes spheres of quicksilver and fills his voided scrotum with 
sulphur a-plenty, which cause such violent suffering that the patient 
succumbs. During his agony, the libertine embuggers him and increases the 
boy's trouble by burning him here, there and everywhere with sulphur-
impregnated slivers, and by scratching, picking, and further burning these 
wounds. 
    112. He drives a long spike through the victim's asshole and thus nails 
him to a slender pole, and leaves him to sigh away his last hours, or days. 
    113. He embuggers, and whilst sodomizing, opens the cranium, removes 
the brain, and fills the cavity with molten lead. 
    Vigorously fustigated beforehand, Hyacinthe's ass is made generally 
available that evening. Narcisse is presented to the assembly: off come his 
balls with a snip of the scissors. Adelaide is summoned forth, a red-hot 
fire shovel is brushed over the rear of her thighs, they burn her clitoris, 
pierce her tongue, lash her breasts with cruel instruments, cut off the two 
little buttons on her breasts, break both her arms, carve away her 
remaining fingers, tear the hair from her cunt, tear a handful of hair from 
her head, pull out six of her teeth. Thus discomfited, she causes Messieurs 
to discharge every one save the Duc who, his livid prick straining upward, 
demands leave to exercise Therèse all alone. Leave so to do is accorded 
him; using a pocketknife, he pries out all her nails and, as he proceeds, 
burns her fingers with a candle, then he fractures one of her arms, and 
still he does not discharge; very wroth, he leaps upon Augustine, encunts 
her and tears out one of her teeth as he spills his seed into her womb. 
    THE 22ND. 114. He breaks a young boy on the rack, then affixes him to a 
wheel upon which he is left to expire: upon the wheel he is turned in such 
a way as to expose his buttocks, and the scoundrel, his tormentor, has his 
table set beneath the wheel, and dines there every day until the patient is 
no more. 
    115. He flays a young boy, rubs his body with honey, and invites the 
flies to the feast. 
    116. He slices off his prick and breasts, nails one of his feet to a 
post, one of his hands to another post, and thus he is left to expire with 
however little dignity. 
    117. The same man who had made Duclos take supper with his dogs, owns a 
lion too, and, arming a boy with a light stick, introduces the youngster 
into the lion's cage. They boy's defense only further arouses the animal; 
the libertine watches the contest and discharges when the loser is 
completely devoured. 
    118. Clothed in a mare's skin, his asshole smeared with mare's fuck, a 
small boy is surrendered to an excited horse. The libertine observes their 
struggle and the boy's death. 
    Giton is subjected to tortures that evening: the Duc, Curval, Hercule, 
and Bum-Cleaver penetrate his ass ungreased. He is whipped very lustily, 
Messieurs extract four of his teeth, cut off four of his fingers (as 
always, each friend has a share in the despoiling of the victim), and 
Durcet crushes one of his balls between thumb and forefinger. All four 
gentlemen soundly flog Augustine. Her glorious ass is soon washed in blood, 
the Duc embuggers her while Curval severs one of her fingers, then Curval 
marches into the breach while the Duc six times sears her thighs with a hot 
iron; Blangis snips away yet another finger the same instant his colleague 
discharges, and despite all this rough treatment, she spends the night, a 
stormy one, in the Duc's bed. Marie sustains a broken arm, her fingernails 
are drawn out, her fingers burned. 
    That same night, Durcet and Curval, seconded by Desgranges and Duclos, 
accompany Adelaide to the cellars. Curval gives her a farewell embuggering, 
then they cause her to die in the throes of terrible sufferings, which you 
will give in full detail. 
    THE 23RD. 119. He places a young boy in a machine which stretches him, 
dislocating his bones; he is meticulously and thoroughly broken, then 
removed from the machine, given a chance to recover his breath, exposed to 
the process again; and so it continues for several days, until the 
patient's death. 
    120. He has a pretty girl pollute and fatigue a young boy; he is 
drained very dry indeed, but still the girl toils over him, he is given no 
nourishment, and eventually dies in horrible convulsions. 
    121. In the space of a single day, he performs four operations upon the 
young man: a gallstone removal, a trepanning, the excision of a fistula in 
the eye, of one in the anus. He knows just enough about surgery to botch 
all four operations; then he abandons the patient, giving him no further 
help and watching him expire. 
    122. After having sheared off the boy's prick and balls, using a red-
hot iron he hollows out a cunt in the place formerly occupied by his 
genitals; the iron makes the hole and cauterizes simultaneously: he fucks 
the patient's new orifice and strangles him with his hands upon 
discharging. 
    123. He massages him with a currycomb; when he has generally abraded 
his flesh in this fashion, he rubs him with alcohol, ignites it, resumes 
his combing, rubs again with alcohol, relights the torch, proceeding in 
this wise till death makes further care unnecessary. 
    That same evening, Narcisse's turn arrives to be vexed; fire is applied 
to his thighs and little prick, then Messieurs crush his two balls. 
    They turn again to Augustine upon the recommendation of the Duc, whose 
spiteful attitude toward her seems only to have worsened; they burn her 
thighs and armpits, a very hot bar of iron is rammed into her cunt. She 
faints, the Duc waxes all the more furious, he shears off one of her 
nipples, drinks her blood, breaks both her arms, and tears out her cunt 
hair, all her teeth, and cuts off every finger left on her hands, 
cauterizing the wounds with fire. And once again 'tis in his bed she 
sleeps, or rather lies, that night, for if one is to believe Duclos, he 
fucks her fore and aft the whole night long, repeatedly telling her that 
the day about to dawn will be her last. 
    Louison appears, they break one of her arms, burn her tongue, her 
clitoris, tear out all her nails, and burn the tips of her bleeding 
fingers. Curval sodomizes her in this state and, in his rage, twists and 
manhandles one of Zelmire's breasts while discharging. Not content with 
those abuses, he catches hold of her again and whips her until he cannot 
lift his arm. 
    THE 24TH. 124. The same man Martaine referred to on the 1st of January 
wishes to embugger the father while his two children observe, and as he 
discharges, he stabs one child to death with one hand, and with his other 
strangles the other. 
    125. His first passion was to flog the bellies of pregnant women; his 
second is to assemble six of them whose pregnancy has reached the end of 
the eighth month: he ties them back to back, their bellies prominently 
thrust forward: he splits open the belly of the first, perforates the belly 
of the second with dagger thrusts, gives a hundred kicks to the third's, a 
hundred blows of a club deflates the belly of the fourth, he burns the 
fifth's, applies a rasp to the sixth's, and then, using a truncheon upon 
her belly, he finishes off whichever amongst them has survived his 
treatment. 
    Curval interrupts the narrations with some furious scene or other, this 
passion having had a great effect upon his mind. 
    126. The seducer mentioned by Duclos assembles two women. Says he to 
the first: "Deny God and religion if you wish to live," but his valet has 
whispered to her, telling her to say nothing, for if she does, she shall 
surely be killed, but by keeping silent she shall have nothing to fear. 
Hence, she is mute; he blows out her brains, murmuring, "There's one for 
God." He calls the second; struck by the example of the first and 
remembering what she has been told before entering the room, that she has 
no choice but to renounce belief in God and religion if she is to save 
herself, she assents to all he proposes: he blows out her brains: "And 
there's another for the Devil." The villain plays that little game every 
week. 
    127. He is a great bugger and he is fond of giving dances, but the 
ceiling in the salon is of a special order, it collapses as soon as the 
room is filled, and nearly everyone perishes. Were he to remain living in 
the same city for any length of time, he would be detected, but he moves 
frequently; he is eventually found out, but only after having given his 
fiftieth dance. 
    128. Martaine's of the 27th of January, whose taste is to promote 
abortions, establishes three pregnant women in three cruel postures, 
composing an artistic group. Thus situated, they give birth while he looks 
on, then he ties each infant to its mother's neck until the little creature 
either dies or is eaten, for the libertine keeps the women just where they 
are and gives them no food. The same personage has yet another passion: he 
has two women whelp in his presence, blindfolds them, and after having 
himself indentified the infants by some mark, he puts them side by side and 
bids each woman go and recover each her own offspring; if the ladies are 
not mistaken, he permits their young to live, but if they are in error, he 
carves up the children with a saber. 
    Narcisse is presented at the evening orgies. While the Bishop sodomizes 
the little fellow, Durcet relieves him of his remaining digits and inserts 
a red-hot needle into his urethral canal. They bid Giton step forth, he is 
kicked about, 'tis a lively game of ball they play with him, three of the 
friends fracture one of his legs while the Duc embuggers him. 
    Zelmire's turn: they roast her clitoris, sear her tongue, bake her 
gums, extract four of her teeth, burn her thighs in six places before and 
behind, snip away her nipples, unfinger both her hands, and when she is 
thus prepared to afford pleasure, Curval embuggers her. But he does not 
discharge. 
    Up steps Fanchon. Their attentions cost her an eye. 
    Escorted by Desgranges and Duclos, the Duc and Curval make a journey to 
the cellars with Augustine in the course of that night; her ass has been 
preserved in excellent condition, 'tis now lashed to tatters, then the two 
brothers alternately embugger her, but guard their seed, and then the Duc 
gives her fifty-eight wounds in the buttocks, pours boiling oil into each 
gash. He drives a hot iron into her cunt, another into her ass, and fucks 
her wounded charms, his prick sheathed in a sealskin condom which worsens 
the already lamentable state of her privities. That accomplished, the flesh 
is peeled away from the bones of her arms and legs, which bones are sawed 
in several different places, then her nerves are laid bare in four adjacent 
places, the nerve ends are tied to a short stick which, like a tourniquet, 
is twisted, thus drawing forth the aforesaid nerves, which are very 
delicate parts of the human anatomy and, which, when mistreated, cause the 
patient to suffer much. Augustine's agonies are unheard-of. 
    She is given some respite and allowed to recruit her strength, then 
Messieurs resume work, but this time, as the nerves are pulled into sight, 
they are scraped with the blade of a knife. The friends complete that 
operation and now move elsewhere; a hole is bored in her throat, her tongue 
is drawn back, down, and passed through it, 'tis a comical effect, they 
broil her remaining breast, then, clutching a scalpel, the Duc thrusts his 
hand into her cunt and cuts through the partition dividing the anus from 
the vagina; he throws aside the scalpel, reintroduces his hand, and 
rummaging about in her entrails, forces her to shit through her cunt, 
another amusing stunt; then, availing himself of the same entrance, he 
reaches up and tears open her stomach. Next, they concentrate upon her 
visage: cut away her ears, burn her nasal passages, blind her eyes with 
molten sealing wax, girdle her cranium, hang her by the hair, attach heavy 
stones to her feet, and allow her to drop: the top of the skull remains 
dangling. 
    She was still breathing when she fell, and the Duc encunted her in this 
sorry state; he discharged and came away only the more enraged. They split 
her belly, opened her, and applied fire to her entrails; scalpel in hand, 
the President burrows in her chest and harasses her heart, puncturing it in 
several places. 'Twas only then her soul fled her body; at the age of 
fifteen years and eight months thus perished one of the most heavenly 
creatures ever formed by Nature's skillful hand. Etc. Her eulogy. 
    THE 25TH. That morning, the Duc takes Colombe to be his wife and 
hereafter she performs all a wife's functions. 
    129. A great connoisseur of the ass and a man mightily fond thereof, he 
embuggers the mistress while the lover looks on, then the lover while his 
mistress watches, then he nails the lover over the mistress' body and 
leaves them to expire, mouth to mouth. 
    Such will be the end of Celadon and Sophie, who are in love, and 
Messieurs interrupt the storyteller to oblige Celadon himself to spread a 
little hot sealing wax on his dear Sophie's thighs; while obeying the 
instructions, he collapses: while lying unconscious, he is embuggered by 
the Bishop. 
    130. He who was wont to amuse himself by throwing a girl into water and 
pulling her out, has as his second passion that of casting seven or eight 
whores into a pond and watching them thrash about, for they are poor 
swimmers. He tenders them an iron pike, but it is heated red hot; still 
they cling to it, but he thrusts them away, and that they the more 
certainly perish, he has amputated one limb from each of them before 
throwing them in. 
    131. His earlier caprice was to cause vomiting; his improvement thereof 
is, by using a secret means, to spread the plague throughout an entire 
provence: he has brought about the death of a truly incredible number of 
people. He also poisons wells and streams. 
    132. Fond of employing the whip, he has three pregnant women locked in 
an iron cage, and with them he imprisons their three children; a fire is 
lit beneath the cage, its occupants caper and dance more and more in 
earnest as the floor heats; the women take the children in their arms, and 
finally fall and die in this manner. 
    (That one belongs somewhere further above; move it to its proper place.) 
    133. 'Twas he who pricked with an awl; more of a man today, he seals a 
pregnant woman in a chest whose interior is studded with sharp nails; he 
then has the chest rolled and dragged through the garden. 
    These tales of pregnant women being chastised have proven as woeful to 
Constance's ears as they have delighted Curval's; she sees only too well 
what the future holds in store for her. As her fatal hour is drawing nigh, 
Messieurs are of the opinion her vexations may be inaugurated: her thighs 
are burned in six places, molten wax is allowed to trickle upon her navel, 
and her breasts are teased with pins. 
    Giton appears, a burning needle is run through his little member, his 
little balls are stabbed, four of his teeth are extracted. 
    Then comes Zelmire, whose death is not far off; deep into her cunt runs 
a red-hot poker, six wounds are inflicted upon her breasts, a dozen upon 
her thighs, needles are driven into her navel, each friend bestows twenty 
strong blows upon her face. They forcibly remove four of her teeth, her eye 
is pricked, she is whipped, she is embuggered. While in the act of 
sodomizing her, Curval, her husband, gives her intelligence of her death, 
scheduled for the morrow; she declares she is not sorry to learn the 
tidings, for 'twill put a period to her sorrows. 
    Rosette steps forward; four teeth are jerked from her mouth, each of 
her shoulders is branded, her thighs and calves are gashed and hacked; she 
is then embuggered while several hands worry her breasts. 
    And now Therèse advances; out comes an eye, a hundred blows of the 
bull's pizzle rain down upon her scrawny back. 
    THE 26TH. 134. A bugger takes his stand at the foot of a tower; the 
earth about him is studded with sharpened steel rods pointing upward; his 
associates pitch several children of both sexes from the top of the tower. 
He has previously embuggered them, and now enjoys seeing them impaled a 
second time. 'Tis, he considers, very thrilling to be splashed by their 
blood. 
    135. The same personage she cited on the 11th of February, whose tastes 
ran to instigating combustions, also delights in binding six pregnant women 
to bundles of inflammable materials; these he sets afire, and if his 
victims undertake to save themselves, he awaits them, pitchfork in hand, 
skewers them and hurls them back into the blaze. However, when half-
roasted, the floor gives way and they spill into a large vat of boiling 
oil, wherein they finally perish. 
    136. He is the nobleman Duclos spoke of, who has no fondness for the 
poor and who bought Lucile, her mother, and her sister, and whom Desgranges 
has also cited (verify this); another of his passions is to assemble a 
family of beggars over a mine and to watch those luckless creatures blown 
to bits. 
    137. A notorious sodomist, in order to combine that crime with those of 
incest, murder, rape, sacrilege, and adultery, first inserts a Host in his 
ass, then has himself embuggered by his own son, rapes his married 
daughter, and kills his niece. 
    138. Greatly partisan to asses, he strangles a mother while embuggering 
her; when she is dead, he turns her over and cunt-fucks her corpse. While 
discharging, he kills her daughter with a knife, slashing her breasts, then 
he embuggers the girl even though she is dead; then apparently convinced 
there is still some life in his victims, and fancying they are jet capable 
of suffering, he hurls the cadavers into a fire and discharges as he 
watches them burn. Duclos spoke of this wealthy individual on the 29th of 
November: 'twas he who liked to see the girl lying on the pallet covered 
with black satin; he is also the same man who figured in Martaine's first 
tale of the 11th of January. 
    The evening's program begins with Narcisse. One of his hands is lopped 
off. 
    Giton loses a hand too. 
    The interior of Michette's cunt is burned, the same treatment is given 
Rosette's, and then both girls are burned upon the body and breasts. But 
Curval, who has lost control of himself, violates the society's charter and 
cleaves an entire breast from Rosette's chest, all the while embuggering 
Michette. 
    Therèse makes a further appearance; she receives two hundred blows of 
the bull's pizzle and loses her other eye. 
    Curval goes in search of the Duc that night when all is still and, 
accompanied by Desgranges and Duclos, those two champions take Zelmrire 
down to the cellars where the most refined tortures are put to use upon 
her: they are all much more painful, more severe than the others employed 
upon Augustine, and the two men are still hard at work by the time 
breakfast arrives the following morning. That enchanting girl dies at the 
age of fifteen years and two months. 'Twas she who could boast the most 
beautiful ass in the harem of little girls. And thus deprived of a wife, 
the President weds Hebe the next day. 
    THE 27TH. The seventeeth and last week's festival is postponed until 
the morrow, in order that the holiday may coincide with the end of the 
narrations; Desgranges recounts the following passions: 
    139. A man Martaine described on the 12th of January, the one who set 
off fireworks in the woman's ass, has, for his second, this other passion: 
he ties two pregnant women together so that they form a ball and fires them 
from a large mortar. 
    140. He was a scratcher and scab picker; he now places two pregnant 
women in a room and obliges them to fight with knives (he observes them 
from a safe position); they are naked, he threatens them with a gun he 
keeps trained upon them, and promises to shoot them dead if they begin to 
dally and falter. If they kill each other, why, that is precisely what he 
wishes, if not, sword in hand, he rushes into the arena and, after killing 
one, he disembowels the other and burns her entrails with aqua fortis, or 
with pieces of red-hot metal. 
    141. A man who once liked to flog pregnant women's bellies has 
reformed: he presently binds a pregnant girl to a wheel and beneath it, 
fixed in a chair and unable to move, sits the girl's mother, her head flung 
back, her mouth open and ready to receive all the ordures and rubbish which 
flow out of the corpse, and the infant, too, if the girl gives birth to it. 
    142. Martaine's of the 16th of January, whose joy was to prick asses, 
attaches a girl to a machine studded with sharp iron points; he fucks her 
as she lies upon that bed, with every blow of his loins he drives her upon 
the nails, then he turns her over and fucks her asswise, that she may also 
be punctured on the other side. When he has finished that phase of the 
operation, he lays a second plank above her, and it is likewise provided 
with nails; the planks are brought together by means of bolts, thus dies 
the patient, crushed and stabbed in a multitude of places. The pressing is 
carried out gradually, she is given ample opportunity to savor her pain. 
    143. A fustigator stretches a pregnant woman out upon a table; he nails 
her thereto, first driving a fiery nail into each eye, one into her mouth, 
another into either breast, then he burns her clitoris and nipples with a 
taper, and slowly saws her knees halfway through, breaks her legs, and ends 
by hammering a red-hot spike, of enormous size, into her navel: it undoes 
both mother and child. He likes to have her ready to give birth. 
    Messieurs whip Julie and Duclos that evening, but from amusement, since 
they are both amongst the inhabitants of Silling who shall transfer their 
residence to Paris: nevertheless, Julie's thighs are burned in two places, 
and she is depilated. 
    Sentenced to die the next day but unaware of her impending fate, 
Constance appears; her nipples are scorched, molten wax is allowed to 
trickle down over her belly, she yields four teeth, Messieurs prick the 
white of her eyes with needles. 
    Narcisse, also due to be immolated on the 28th of February, enters upon 
the stage; he loses an eye and four teeth. 
    Giton, Michette, and Rosette, destined to accompany Constance to the 
grave, each surrenders an eye and four teeth, Rosette her two nipples to 
the knife and six chunks of flesh, some of them carved from her arms, some 
from her thighs; all her fingers are neatly severed, and hot irons are 
introduced into her cunt and bum. Both Curval and the Duc discharge twice. 
    Up steps Louison; she weathers a storm of one hundred blows of the 
bull's pizzle; Messieurs pluck out one of her eyes and, most cynically, bid 
her swallow it. Down it goes. 
    THE 28TH. 144. A bugger: has two girls brought to him, they are fast 
friends, he ties them mouth to mouth, and by their side sits an excellent 
meal; but they cannot get to it, and he watches them bite and eat each 
other when hunger begins to exert its influence upon them. 
    145. A man who as a boy was wont to flog pregnant women, now shuts six 
of this sort into a round cage formed by large iron hoops: they are all 
facing one another. Little by little, the hoops contract, little by little 
they are brought together, slowly they are flattened, gradually all six are 
crushed, their fruit crushed too. But prior to this he has cut a buttock 
and a breast from each and fashioned six collars therefrom; each woman 
wears one as you might a fur tippet. 
    146. Another pregnant-woman beater binds two of these objects each to 
the end of a long tilting pole; a clever machine, into which the other ends 
of the poles are inserted, bumps and bangs the women against each other. 
These repeated collisions are their mutual undoing, and he discharges. He 
makes every effort to procure himself a mother and daughter, or two 
sisters. 
    147. That Comte of whom Duclos spoke at length, and to whom Desgranges 
alluded once before on the 26th, he who purchased Lucile, Lucile's mother, 
and Lucile's little sister, of whom Martaine also spoke in her fourth tale 
on the 1st of January, this Comte, I say, has another passion still: 'tis 
to suspend three women over three holes. The first woman hangs by her 
tongue, beneath her is a very deep well; the second hangs from her breasts, 
underneath her lies a charcoal brazier; the scalp of the third has been 
loosened, she hangs by her hair over a pit studded with pointed iron rods. 
When the weight of their bodies causes these women to fall free - when the 
scalp is torn from the head of the third, when the breasts of the second 
tear loose from her torso, when the tongue of the first is torn from her 
mouth - they only escape one difficulty in order to encounter a new one. 
Whenever possible, he suspends three pregnant women, or three women from 
the same family; such was his unkind use of Lucile, her sister, and her 
mother. 
    148. The last passion. 
    (But why the last? Where are the other two? They were all there in the original outline.) 
    Desgranges recounts the last passion: 
    The nobleman who indulges in this final passion we shall designate as 
the infernal caprice or, more simply, as the hell passion, has been cited 
four times: by Duclos in the last story she told on the 29th of November; 
by Champville, when referring to a personage who depucelates nine-year-olds 
only; by Martaine, as he who depucelates three-year-olds in the bum; by 
Desgranges who mentioned him in an early connection (establish that 
connection more precisely). He is a man of some forty years, enormous in 
stature and furnished with the member of a stallion: his prick is very near 
to nine inches in circumference and a foot in overall length; he is 
exceedingly wealthy, a very powerful lord, very harsh, very cruel, his 
heart is of stone. He has a house on the outskirts of Paris which he uses 
for no purposes other than the gratification of this passion. 
    The surroundings wherein he savors his delight is a spacious room, 
simply decked, but padded everywhere, the floor covered with mattresses; 
upon entering the room one sees a single long casement window, the room has 
no other opening save for the door; that window looks down upon an 
underground cellar, twenty feet below the salon where he busies himself, 
and looking out, one sees the mattresses which break the fall of the girls 
as he flings down into the cellar, a description whereof we shall give 
shortly. He requires fifteen girls for this party; their ages must be 
between fifteen and seventeen, neither more, nor less; he employs six 
procuresses in Paris, as well as twelve in the provinces, and they are to 
spare no efforts, no expense to find him everything of the most charming 
that may possibly be found of that age, and as it is collected, the 
material is sent to a country convent over which he has absolute control, 
and there, in that nursery, the girls ripen, and from it he selects the 
fifteen objects for his debauch, which is regularly executed every 
fortnight. 
    That evening before the ceremony begins, he personally examines the 
said material, the least defect in which warrants its rejection; he insists 
that his creatures be perfect models of beauty. Escorted by a procuress, 
they arrive at the house and are lodged in a room adjacent to the pleasure-
salon. They are first exhibited to him in this adjoining chamber, all 
fifteen are naked. He touches, feels, fondles, experiments with them, he 
scrutinizes them, sucks their mouths, and one after the other has them all 
shit into his mouth. But he does not swallow. 
    This initial operation performed with dreadful seriousness, he brands 
each upon the shoulder, imprinting a number in her flesh; it is to indicate 
the order in which he will receive them. That done, he goes alone into the 
salon, where he remains for a brief space: no one knows what he does in 
this moment of solitude. Then he knocks. Girl Number 1 is cast into his 
lair. And she is properly cast into it: the procuress flings her toward 
him, he catches her in his arms, she is naked. He shuts the door, takes up 
switches and begins to flail her ass; after that he sodomizes her with his 
gigantic prick. Never does he need any help. He does not discharge. His 
prick retires, still rock-hard; he seizes the switches again and returns to 
lashing the girl's back, the front and back of her thighs, then he lays her 
down again and deflowers her cunt; next, he goes back to beating her, now 
upon the breasts, both of which he seizes and grinds and kneads with all 
his strength, and he is a strong man. And now he picks up an awl and six 
times stabs her body, driving his point once into each bruised breast. 
    After all that has been done, he opens the casement window, places the 
girl in the middle of the room, standing erect, at attention, facing the 
window; he stands behind her and, when all is ready, gives her a kick in 
the ass of such startling violence that she flies across the room, crashes 
against the windowsill, topples over it, and vanishes into the cellar. But 
before launching her, he slips a ribbon around her neck, thereby to signify 
which torture, according to his best belief, will be most suitable for that 
particular patient, which torture will prove most voluptuous to inflict 
upon her, and his acuity and judgment in these matters, his tact and 
discrimination are truly wonderful. 
    And thus the girls pass one by one through his hands, the identical 
ceremony awaits them all, and thus he makes away with thirty maidenheads in 
a given day, and performs those heroic feats unscathed: not a drop of fuck 
does he lose. The subterranean apartment into which the girl tumble is 
furnished with fifteen different assortments of frightful torture machines, 
and an executioner, wearing the mask and emblems of a demon, wearing also 
the colors of his specialty, presides over each apparatus. The ribbon 
placed about the girl's neck corresponds in color with the torture to which 
she has been condemned, and directly she falls into the pit, the 
appropriate executioner steps forward, having recognized his victim, and 
drags her to the machine of which he has charge, but the tortures do not 
begin until the fifteenth has entered the gallery and been claimed by her 
demon. As soon as the entire complement has descended, our man, by now in a 
furious state after having depucelated thirty orifices without discharging, 
I say, makes his entrance into the infernal repair; he is practically 
naked, his prick glued against his belly. Everything is ready, all the 
tortures are in motion, and they proceed simultaneously, amidst much noise. 
    The first torture engine is a wheel upon which the girl is strapped and 
which, rotating uninterruptedly, bears against an outer circle studded with 
razors which everywhere scratch and tear and slice the unfortunate victim, 
but as the blades do not bite deep, only superficially, she turns for at 
least two hours before dying. 
    The second: the girl lies two inches above a red-hot iron plate which 
slowly melts her. 
    Third: she is attached by the waist to a piece of burning iron, and all 
her limbs are twisted and frightfully dislocated. 
    Fourth: the four limbs attached each to a spring which slowly moves 
away, gradually stretching her arms and legs until they are detached and 
the trunk falls into a brazier. 
    Fifth: a red-hot cast-iron bell is place over her head, but the bonnet 
is several sizes too large, the iron does not touch her, but her brain 
slowly melts, her head is slowly grilled. 
    Sixth: she is chained inside an iron tub of boiling oil. 
    Seventh: she is held standing before a machine which, six times a 
minute, shoots a small dart into her body, and each time into a different 
place; the machine does not stop until she is entirely feathered. 
    Eighth: her feet anchored in a furnace, a mass of lead very gradually 
descends upon her head, thrusting her further into the oven. 
    Ninth: her executioner continually pricks her with a red-hot iron goad; 
she is bound before him, he thus meticulously works over every inch of her 
body. 
    Tenth: she is chained to a pillar underneath a large glass dome, twenty 
famished reptiles devour her alive. 
    Eleventh: a cannon ball attached to each foot, she is suspended by one 
hand, and if she falls, 'tis into a furnace. 
    Twelfth: a hook is driven through her mouth; thus she hangs, a deluge 
of burning pitch incessantly pouring over her body. 
    Thirteenth: the nerves are pulled from her flesh and tied to cords 
which draw them further, and meanwhile burning nails are driven into her 
body. 
    Fourteenth: alternately torn with tongs and whipped upon her cunt and 
ass with martinets whose steel tips are heated red hot, and from time to 
time scratched with burning iron rakes. 
    Fifteenth: she is poisoned by a drug which burns and rends her 
entrails, which hurls her into frightful convulsions, causes her to utter 
hideous screams, and insures her death; but it is slow, and she is the last 
to succumb. This is one of the most terrible of the ordeals. 
    The villain walks about the torture chamber as soon as he arrives 
there, spends fifteen minutes contemplating each operation while swearing 
like of the damned and overwhelming the patient with unmentionable 
invectives. When toward the end he can bear no more of it and his fuck, 
captive for so long, is ready to escape him, he falls into a comfortable 
armchair whence he can observe the entire spectacle, two of the demons 
approach him, display their asses and frig him, and he squirts his seed 
while pronouncing shouts so stentorian that they rise above and totally 
blot out the din his fifteen patients are producing. And now he gets to his 
feet and leaves the gallery, the coup de grâce is given the girls who are 
not yet dead, their bodies are buried, and there's an end to it until the 
next fortnight comes round. 
    Wherewith Desgranges terminates her contribution; she is congratulated, 
toasted, acclaimed, etc. . . . 
    Upon the morning of that day there had been the most ominous 
preparations for the great holiday Messieurs were meditating. Curval, 
detesting Constance as he does, had been cunt-fucking her at a very early 
hour and while fucking her had imparted grave news to her. Coffee was 
served by the five victims, to wit: Constance, Narcisse, Giton, Michette, 
and Rosette. Horrid things were perpetrated in the salon; during the 
recitations the reader has just perused, the quatrains Messieurs had been 
able to arrange had been composed of naked children. And as soon as 
Desgranges had brought her narrations to a term, Fanny had been marched to 
the fore: her remaining fingers and toes had been hacked off, and Curval 
had embuggered her without pomade, so had the Duc, so had the four first-
rank fuckers. 
    Sophie was led into the center of the stage; Celadon, her lover, had 
been obliged to burn the interior of her cunt, all her fingers had been 
severed, her four limbs bled, her right ear had been torn away, her left 
eye gouged out. Celadon had been constrained to lend his assistance in all 
these operations, and his least frown or lowest murmur was rewarded by a 
flogging with an iron-tipped martinet. Supper had come next, the meal had 
been voluptuous, Messieurs drank naught but sparkling champagne and 
liqueurs. 
    The torturing was arranged for the orgy hour; as the friends sat at 
dessert, word was brought to them that everything was in readiness, they 
descended and found the cellars agreeably festooned and very properly 
furnished. Constance lay upon a kind of mausoleum, the four children 
decorated its corners. As their asses were still in excellent condition, 
Messieurs were able to take considerable pleasure in molesting them; then 
at last the heavier work was begun: while embuggering Giton, Curval himself 
opened Constance's belly and tore out the fruit, already well-ripened and 
clearly of the masculine sex; then the society continued, inflicting 
tortures upon those five victims. Their sufferings were long, cruel, and 
various. 
    Upon THE 1ST DAY OF MARCH, remarking that the snows have not yet 
melted, Messieurs decide to dispatch the rest of the subjects one by one. 
Messieurs devise new arrangements whereby to keep their bedchambers 
staffed, and agree to give a green ribbon to everyone whom they propose to 
take back with them to France; the green favor is bestowed, however, upon 
condition the recipient is willing to lend a hand with the destruction of 
the other victims. Nothing is said to the six women in the kitchen; 
Messieurs decide to do away with the three scullery maids, who are well 
worth toying over, but to spare the cooks, because of their considerable 
talents. And so a list is drawn up; 'tis found that, to date, the following 
creatures had already been sacrificed: 
    Wives: Aline, Adelaide, and Constance: 3 
    Sultanas: Augustine, Michette, Rosette, and Zelmire: 4 
    Bardashes: Giton and Narcisse: 2 
    Fuckers: one subaltern: 1 
    Total: 10 
    The new menages are arranged: 
    The Duc takes unto himself, or under his protection: Hercule, Duclos, 
one cook: 4 
    Curval takes: Bum-Cleaver, Champville, one cook: 4 
    Durcet takes: Invictus, Martaine, one cook: 4 
    And the Bishop: Antinoüs, Desgranges, Julie: 4 
    Total: 16 
    Messieurs decide that, upon a given signal, and with the aid of the 
four fuckers and the four storytellers, but not the cooks whom they do not 
wish to employ for these purposes, they will seize all the others, making 
use of the most treacherous possible means and when their victims least 
expect it; they will lay hands upon all the others, I say, save for the 
three scullions, who will not be seized until later on; it is further 
decided that the upstairs chambers will be converted into four prisons, 
that the three subaltern fuckers, manacled, will be lodged in the strongest 
of these prisons; Fanny, Colombe, Sophie, and Hebe in the second; Celadon, 
Zelamir, Cupidon, Zephyr, Adonis, and Hyacinthe in the third; and the four 
elders in the fourth; that one subject will be dispatched every day; and 
that when the hour arrives to arrest the three scullions, they will be 
locked into whichever of the prison happens to be empty. 
    These agreements once reached, Messieurs appoint each storyteller the 
warden of one prison. And whenever they please, Messieurs will amuse 
themselves with these victims, either in their prison or in one of the 
larger rooms, or in their Lordships' bedchambers, depending upon Messieurs' 
individual preference. And so, as we have just indicated, one subject is 
dispatched daily, in the following order: 
    On the 1st of March: Fanchon. 
    On the 2nd: Louison. 
    On the 3rd: Therèse. 
    On the 4th: Marie. 
    On the 5th: Fanny. 
    On the 6th and the 7th: Sophie and Celadon together, for they are 
lovers, and they perish nailed one to the other, as we have hitherto 
explained. 
    On the 8th: one subaltern fucker. 
    On the 9th: Hebe. 
    On the 10th: another subaltern fucker. 
    On the 11th: Colombe. 
    On the 12th: the last of the subaltern fuckers. 
    On the 13th: Zelamir. 
    On the 14th: Cupidon. 
    On the 15th: Zephyr. 
    On the 16th: Adonis. 
    On the 17th: Hyacinthe. 
    On the morning of the 18th, Messieurs and their cohorts seize the three 
scullions, lock them in the prison formerly occupied by the elders, and 
dispatch one upon that day. 
    A second upon the 19th. 
    And the last upon the 20th. 
    Total: 20. 
    The following recapitulation lists the inhabitants of the Château of 
Silling during that memorable winter:
    Masters: 4 
    Elders: 4 
    Kitchen staff: 6 
    Storytellers: 4 
    Fuckers: 8 
    Little boys: 8 
    Wives: 4 
    Little girls: 8 
    Total: 46 
    Whereof thirty were immolated and sixteen returned to Paris. 
     
FINAL ASSESSMENT 
    Massacred prior to the 1st of March, 
    in the course of the orgies: 10 
    Massacred after the 1st of March: 20 
    Survived and came back: 16 
    Total: 46
    With what regards the tortures and deaths of the last twenty subjects, 
and life such as it was in the household until the day of departure, you 
will give details at your leisure and where you see fit, you will say, 
first of all, that thirteen of the sixteen survivors (three of whom were 
cooks) took all their meals together; sprinkle in whatever tortures you 
like. 




NOTES
    Under no circumstances deviate from this plan, everything has been 
worked out, the entirety several times re-examined with the greatest care 
and thoroughness. 
    Detail the departure. And throughout the whole, introduce a quantity of 
moral dissertation and diatribe, above all at the suppers. 
    When you produce the final version, keep a notebook; in it you will 
place the names of all the principal characters and the names of all those 
who play important roles, such as they who have several passions and who 
will appear several times in the romance, as, for example, the hell 
libertine; leave a wide margin beside their names and, as you recopy, fill 
it with everything you come across that has any bearing upon them; this 
note is very essential, it is the sole way to keep your work clear of 
obscurities and to avoid repetitions. 
    Edulcorate Part The First, it is much too strong; things develop too 
rapidly and too far in it, it cannot possibly be too soft, mild, feeble, 
subdued. Above all, never have the four friends do anything until it has 
first been recounted. You have not been sufficiently scrupulous in that 
connection. 
    In Part The First, say that the man who mouth-fucks the little girl 
prostituted by her father is the same man, of whom she has already spoken, 
who fucks with a dirty prick. 
    Do not forget to place somewhere in December the scene of the little 
girls serving supper, squirting liqueurs from their asses into Messieurs' 
glasses; you announced such a scene but failed to include it in the plan. 
     
SUPPLEMENTARY TORTURES
    -By means of a hollow tube, a mouse is introduced into her cunt, the 
tube is withdrawn, the cunt sewn up, and the animal, unable to get out, 
devours her entrails. 
    -She is made to swallow a snake which in similar wise feeds upon her 
entrails. 
     
ADDENDA
    In general, describe Curval and the Duc as two hot-blooded and 
imperious scoundrels, 'tis thus you conceived them in the plan and in Part 
The First, and figure the Bishop as a cool, reasoning and tough-minded 
villain. As for Durcet, he must be mischievous, a teaser, false, 
traitorous, perfidious. In accordance with which, have them do everything 
that conforms with such characters. 
    Carefully recapitulate all the names and the qualities of all the 
personages your storytellers mention; this to avoid repetition. 
    Upon one page in your notebook of characters draw the plan of the 
château, room by room, and in the blank space next to this page, itemize 
all the things done in each room. 
    This entire great roll was begun the 22nd of October, 1785, and 
finished in thirty-seven days. 




MISTAKES I HAVE MADE*
    I have been too explicit, not sufficiently reticent, about the chapel 
activities at the beginning; must not elaborate upon them until after the 
stories in which they are mentioned. 
    Said too much about active and passive sodomy; conceal that until the 
stories have discussed it. 
    I was wrong to have made Duclos react strongly to the death of her 
sister; that doesn't sort with the rest of her character; change it. 
    If I said Aline was a virgin upon arrival at the château, that was an 
error: she isn't, and could not be. The Bishop has depucelated her in every 
sector. 
    And not having been able to reread all this, there must be a swarm of 
other mistakes. 
    When later I put the text in final order, I must be particularly 
careful to have a notebook beside me at all times; I'll have to put down 
very exact mention of each happening and each portrait as I write it; 
otherwise, I'll get horribly confused because of the multitude of 
characters. 
    For the Second Part, begin with the assumption Augustine and Zephyr are 
already sleeping in the Duc's bedchamber in the First Part; likewise Adonis 
and Zelmire in Curval's, Hyacinthe and Fanny in Durcet's, Celadon and 
Sophie in the Bishop's, even though none of them has been deflowered yet. 
    * As Sade notes, the speed with which he wrote the final draft of The 
120 Days, and because he was unable to reread and correct his manuscript, 
resulted in a number of minor discrepancies in dates, characters, and 
situations, which the careful reader will doubtless discover. None the 
less, given the large cast of characters, and the complexity of rules and 
procedures, his accuracy of detail is remarkable. -Tr.