A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Keywords:
Paris, france
Smuggling (contraband)
Asylum
French revolution
Based on play or musical
Maid
19th century
Movie tag line: "Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his."
Character: Marquis de Sade
Character: Madeleine LeClerc
Character: Abbe du Coulmier
Character: Dr. Royer-Collard
Character: Madame LeClerc