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14-Weird Lit Tales: Where is the skull of the Marquis of Sade?
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Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ry9SRgeOAS4 The Marquis de Sade died in 1814 with clear instructions about his burial: he forbade the dissection of his body and requested to be buried in the woods on his property, with no trace of his grave. However, he was interred in a Christian cemetery and marked with a cross, contrary to his declared atheism. Later, he was exhumed, dissected, and his skull was stolen, likely at the behest of Dr. Ramon, director of the Charenton asylum, who used it for phrenological studies. This pseudoscience attempted…
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