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 Président 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
Président, 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.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 environment 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, embuggersthe 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 Président saws through his neck and the other two apply red-hot irons to all parts of his
body.
This scene transpires directly after dinner is over and hence coffee is omitted that day; the work
completed, everyone repairs to the auditorium as usual, then to supper, and amongst themselves
Messieurs debate whether, in return for having disclosed the conspiracy, they ought not accord
Fanchon a reprieve, for their decision that morning was to maltreat her the same evening. The
Bishop declares himself against sparing her, and says that it would be unworthy of them to yield
to the sentiment of gratitude, and that, for his part, he will always be seen to favor any decision
likely to afford the society one pleasure more, just as he will always vote against any motion apt
to deprive it of a pleasure. And so, after having punished Augustine for lending herself to the
subversive scheme, first by obliging her to watch her lover's execution, then by embuggering her
and making her believe her head would be cut off as well, next by actually pulling out two of her
teeth, an operation performed by the Duc while Curval was embuggering that beautiful girl, finally
by giving her a sound whipping, after all that, I say, Fanchon is led into the arena, made to shit,
given a hundred lashes by each of the friends, and then the Duc deftly shaves off her left nipple.
She raises a storm, criticizing their behavior toward her and describing it as unjust. "Were it just,"
says the Duc, wiping his razor, "it would surely fail to give us an erection." Whereupon they dress
the old whore's wounds, eager to preserve her for further ordeals.
Their Lordships perceive that indeed there had been faint but definite rebellious stirrings amongst
the subaltern fuckers; the prompt sacrifice of one of them has, however, thoroughly quelled their
murmurs. Like Fanchon, the three other duennas are divested of all responsibility, removed from
office, and replaced by the four storytellers and Julie. They tremble, do the old dames; but by
what shifts are they to escape their fate?
THE 13TH.
67.A great connoisseur of the ass, he declares his love for a girl and, having
arranged a boating party, lures her upon the water in a small boat, the which has been prepared
for the outing, springs a leak, founders; the girl is drowned. He sometimes pursues his objective
by different means: will, for example, lead a girl out upon a high balcony, have her lean upon the
railing, which gives way; and once again the girl dies.
68.A man, while making his apprenticeship in life, was content first to whip and then to
embugger; now, having reached a mature age, entices the girl to enter a specially prepared room;
a trap door yields beneath her step, she falls into a cellar where the rake awaits her; he plunges a
knife into her breasts, her cunt, and into her asshole as she lies stunned by her fall. Next, he
casts her, dead or still alive, into another cellar, over which a stone drops into place; she tumbles
upon a heap of other corpses, and she expires in a great fit if life has not already departed her
sore-beset frame. And he is very careful to administer delicate stabs, for he would prefer that she
live a little and finally perish in the cellar mentioned latterly. Prior to all this, he of course
embuggers and flogs her and discharges; 'tis coolly and with utmost method he proceeds to her
undoing.
69.A bugger has the girl mount astride an untamed, unbroken horse which unseats her, drags
her along a rocky terrain, and finally pitches her over a precipice.
70.Martaine's hero of the 18th of January whose juvenile passion was to distribute little mounds
of gunpowder upon the girl's body, has made significant progress. He lays the girl in a special
bed; when properly tucked in, the bed gives way, dropping her into a large brazier of live coals,
but she is able to scramble out of it; however, he is standing by and, as she repeats her attempts
to escape the fire, he drives her back, wielding a pitchfork and with it aiming stout blows at her
belly.
71.The gentleman she mentioned on the 11th, who likes to burn down poorhouses, endeavors to
lure a beggar, whether a man or a woman, from out of one and into his own home, upon the
pretense of bestowing charity; he embuggers his victim, then breaks his back and leaves him
thus discomfited to die in a dungeon.
72.He who was wont to defenestrate a woman, hurling her upon a dung heap, the same man of
whom Martaine spoke, by way of second passion executes the following one: he allows the girl to
sleep in a room she is acquainted with and whose window she knows to be not far above the
ground; she is given opium, when in a deep slumber she is conveyed to another chamber,
identical with the first but having a window high above the ground which, on this side of the
house, is strewn with sharp rocks. Next, the libertine enters where she lies sleeping, makes a
dreadful noise, terrifies her; she is informed that she is about to die. Knowing the drop from the
window to the ground to be short, she leaps through it, but falls thirty feet and lands upon the
murderous rocks, killing herself. No one has so much as laid a finger upon her.
In the character of a woman, that great histrionic, the Bishop, marries Antinoüs, whose role is that
of a husband, and also weds Céladon, 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 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.
Céladon's ass is made generally available that evening; the Duc and Curval indulge themselves
heavily. Constance's pregnancy is still on the Président's mind; he suggests that she be bled, and
bleeds her himself while discharging in Céladon's ass, then he lops off one of Thérèse'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.
