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The 14th of July, 1789, and we are in revolutionary France.

The Bastille is falling.

The medieval fortress turned prison holds just a handful of prisoners

as crowds of revolutionary storm in searching for gunpowder.

And one aristocrat who survived the Bastille because he was whisked away.

Mere weeks before it all happened was the infamous Makidassad.

Yep, luck was with him and he is now imprisoned elsewhere.

But his most famous work, 120 days of Sodom,

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