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Marquis de Sade: [voiceover, as Coulmier writes] Beloved reader, I leave you now with a tale penned by the Abbe du Coulmier, a man who found freedom, in the most unlikeliest of places: at the bottom of an inkwell, on the tip of a quill. However, be forewarned, it's plot is blood-soaked, it's characters depraved, and it's themes... unwholesome at best. But in order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the full measure of man. So come... I Dare you... Turn the page
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MARQUIS Beloved reader
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I leave you with a tale penned by the abb de Coulmier
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a man who found freedom in the unlikeliest of places
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at the bottom of an inkwell
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on the tip of a quill
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COULMIER HUMS
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However be forewarned
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its plot is blood soaked
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its characters depraved
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and its themes unwholesome at best
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But in order to know virtue
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we must acquaint ourselves with vice
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Only then can we know the full measure of man
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So come
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I dare you
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Turn the page
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Movie Summary
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
