The 120 Days of Sodom
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The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after it
Title page of Les 120 Journées de Sodome, first edition, 1904
The modern, ruined Château de Lacoste
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Chaperone (social)
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A chaperone in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public; usually she was an older married woman, and most commonly the girl's own mother.
The 120 Days of Sodom
…virginity and high social status. Four middle-aged women, chosen for their ugliness to stand in contrast to the children, are brought along to serve as duennas. Marie, 58, who strangled all 14 of her children and one of whose buttocks is consumed by an abscess. Louison, 60, stunted, hunchbacked, blind in one…
Mrs. Chambers (chaperone), Bonnie Mealing, Clare Dennis, Frances Bult, Eileen Wearne, Thelma Kench (N.Z. sprinter) at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, USA