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Marquis ___ French Writer

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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)

33%8French prison that housed the Marquis de Sade
noun

• a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)

• a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution

33%9Marquis de ___, French nobleman and military officer
noun

• French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)

• a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians

• a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River

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