Mots de prison Secrets et transgressions dans les lettres carcérales de Sade et Mirabeau

In Vincennes, Mirabeau and Sade experienced the pain of confinement and were forced to write in the “style of slaves.” But the letters they wrote when incarcerated helped heal intimate wounds and paved the way to transgression. In the century of Beccaria, words from prison delivered a message of liberty.