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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
CH┬TEAU 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
CH┬TEAU 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 Antinoⁿs 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
Antinoⁿs 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 CH┬TEAU 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; TherΦse
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 DesprΦs, 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
Antinoⁿs, 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 TherΦse'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 TherΦse'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 TherΦse, 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 TherΦse 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 TherΦse 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.
    TherΦse 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 grΓce 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: Antinoⁿs, 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: TherΦse.
    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 ChΓteau 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
chΓteau, 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 chΓteau, 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.