Epilogues and Aftermaths: Historically Forgotten Survivors and Consequences Volume One

By Marques Vickers

Public attention and scrutiny has dimmed following most of these notable, tragic and publicized events, deaths and murders. Each included historical profile spawns a secondary tale concerning the surviving victims, intimate family coping with loss and the consequential aftermath. The edition highlights sixty momentous and obscure calamities and their profound effect on those left behind. In some instances the immediate trauma and impact has become lethal. In other instances, the road towards recovery has generated a profound influence on others. These accompanying survivor biographies are equally compelling and represent an important continuity to a larger perspective of understanding.

Volume One is a compilation of sixty combined well-documented and obscure biographies. They include:

Jimi Hendrix’s Accidental Overdose and The Sole Witness
James Dean’s Fatal Collision and the Two Survivors
The Decadent Decline of Doors’ Lead Singer Jim Morrison and his companion Pam Courson
The Zodiac Serial Killer: Taunting Authorities
Lady Diana Spencer’s Fatal Paris Crash
Ted Bundy: The Man Who Lived To Kill Women
Singer Kurt Cobain’s Prelude and Final Act
Actor Errol Flynn’s Final Debauchery
Gangster Al Capone’s desperate venereal disease treatment and his Chicago Outfit gang
The Washington D.C. Beltway Victims and Survivors
The Enduring Art Legacy of Pablo Picasso
Gary Hart’s Aborted Presidential Campaign
Writer Oscar Wilde’s fall and the Consequences To His Immediate Family
The Curse That Befell Abraham Lincoln’s box office companions following his assassination
The Green River Killer and His Naive Wife
The Corruptible Legacy of the Marquis de Sade and his wife’s penitence
The Two Wives Behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise and Fall and his son
The Celebrated Trip to Return To America and Return to France by General Lafayette
Congressman Daniel Sickles Killing Inside Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park over his wife’s Infidelity
The Unmarked Grave For Assassin John Wilkes Booth
Marion Clover Adams cursed by the constraints of her gender and husband Writer Henry Adams
Theo and Johanna Van Gogh’s Contribution to making Vincent Van Gogh internationally renowned
The Adventurous Fury and Flameout of Writer Jack London and wife Charmian Kittredge-London
The Debilitating Demise of Woodrow Wilson and his surviving wife
Edith Bolling-Wilson
The Biddle Brothers Pittsburgh Prison Escape and Accomplice Kate Soffel
Murderous Revenge and Suicides Spawned By The Brides of Christ Cult
The Duchess of Windsor’s Upbringing and life following the death of King Edward VIII
A Tragic Bohemian Amedeo Modigliani and his distraught Mistress Jeanne Hebuterne
President Warren Harding and his vindictive wife Florence
The Philosophical Contraction of Jean-Paul Sartre and Literary Comrade Simone de Beauvoir
Gertrude Stein’s Fawning Over Nazism and her neglected companion Alice B. Toklas
The Pathetic Final Acts For F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his intimate Associate Clyde Tolson
American Wartime Spy Virginia Hall’s Posthumous Recognition
Yves Klein Obsession With Cobalt Blue and Fatal Film Viewing
Edwin Pratt’s Seattle Civil Rights Murder
Presidential Campaigner George Wallace’s Wounding and Survival
Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Youthful Stolen Legacies
Spiro Agnew’s Vice Presidential Resignation
Dr. Marcus Foster Assassination and Aide Robert Blackburn’s survival
The Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide?
A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of Tamara Rand
A Baltimore City Councilman’s Death Amidst A Shooting Rampage
Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children
Mulugeta Seraw fatal beating by Portland skinheads
Doug Carlile’s Murder For Hire Over Oil Field Leases
Brittany Maynard’s Death With Dignity Crusade and Aftermath

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Marques Vickers
• Release date: Jun 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215831151

Marques Vickers

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions. He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86. Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com. Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography. His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism. He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.

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Epilogues and Aftermaths: Historically Forgotten Survivors and Consequences

VOLUME ONE

Survivors From Renowned Events, Killings and Deaths

Published by Marques Vickers at Smashwords

Copyright 2023 Marques Vickers

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface

A Nearly Discarded Revolutionary Voice Becomes A Martyr (Jean-Paul Marat)

Survivor: Wife Simonne Evrard

The Initial First Lady of Social Prominence (Dolley Madison)

Survivor: Son Payne Todd

The Corruptible Legacy of the Notorious Marquis de Sade

Survivor: Wife Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil de Sade and Descendants

The Two Wives Behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise and Fall

Survivors: Empress Josephine, Queen Marie-Louise and son, Franz, Duke of Reichstadt

The Celebrated Return To America By General Lafayette

Epilogue: Lafayette’s Return to Post-Revolutionary France

Genius Inundated By Adversity That Spurred Productivity (Writer Honore de Balzac)

Survivor: Spouse Polish Countess Ewelina Hanska

Murder in Broad Daylight Inside Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park (Congressman Daniel Sickles)

Epilogue: Sickles’ Murder Trial and Wife Teresa Sickles

A Curse Of Infamy Upon A Playhouse Of Tragedy (Abraham Lincoln)

Epilogue: Box Office Companions Major Henry Rathbone and Fiancé Clara Harris

An Unmarked Gravestone For A Reviled Assassin (John Wilkes Booth)

Epilogue: Booth’s Unmarked Grave in his Family’s Burial Plot

An Obscure Cemetery Headstone and Mountain Namesake (Lady Mary Blackmore)

Survivor: Husband William Blackmore

The Patron Sinning Writer Depicting the South of France (Alphonse Daudet)

Survivor: Wife Julia Allard-Daudet

Marion Clover Adams: A Woman Constrained Seeks Her Own Exit

Survivor: Husband Henry Adams

The Supporting Force Behind Starry Nights (Theo Van Gogh)

Survivor: Wife Johanna Van Gogh

The Fame and Crash of Irish Playwright Oscar Wilde

Survivor: Wife Constance Lloyd

The Adventurous Fury and Flameout of Writer Jack London

Survivor: Wife Charmian Kittredge-London

The Debilitating and Crushing Demise of President Woodrow Wilson

Survivor: Wife Edith Bolling-Wilson

The Biddle Brothers Prison Escape and Mrs. Soffel

Epilogue: Accomplice Kate Soffel

Murderous Revenge Spawned By The Brides of Christ Cult (Franz Creffield)

Epilogue: The Revenge and Suicides of Esther Mitchell and Maud Creffield

The Future Duchess of Windsor’s Baltimore Upbringing

Epilogue: Life Following The Death of King Edward VIII

An Inaccurate Accusation Destroys A Conductor’s Artistic Reputation Karl Muck

Epilogue: Post War Reception in Germany

A Tragic Bohemian Artist Recognized Posthumously (Amedeo Modigliani)

Survivor: Mistress Jeanne Hebuterne

Warren Gamaliel Harding: The Poisoning of a President?

Survivor: Wife Florence Harding

A Philosophical Contraction (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Survivor: Philosophical Comrade Simone de Beauvoir

Being There But Remaining Blind To Surroundings (Gertrude Stein)

Survivor: Companion Alice B. Toklas

The Pathetic Final Act For F. Scott Fitzgerald

Survivor: Wife Zelda Fitzgerald

The Initial FBI Director Who Drew His Own Legal Boundaries (J. Edgar Hoover)

Survivor: Intimate Associate Clyde Tolson

Separating Genius From An Incomprehensible Philosophy (Charles Lindbergh)

Survivor: Wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A Desperate Treatment Failure For A Ruthless Gangster (Al Capone)

Epilogue: The Chicago Outfit Gang

An American Wartime Spy Who’s Exploits Were Belatedly Acknowledged (Virginia Hall)

Epilogue: Posthumous Recognition

A Communist Inquiry That Elevated Richard Nixon’s Recognition (Alger Hiss)

Epilogue: Post Trial Legacy

James Dean: A Collision of Fatalism

Survivors: Passenger Rolf Wutherich and Accident Driver Donald Turnupseed

The Legendary Final Visit and Genitalia of Actor Errol Flynn

Survivor: Companion Beverly Aadland

Originality And Monopolizing Cobalt Blue (Yves Klein)

Survivor: Wife Rotraut Klein-Moquay

The Zodiac Serial Killer: Taunting Authorities With His Capture

Survivors: Bryan Hartnell and Michael Mageau

A Civil Rights Assassination or Political Rival Killing? (Edwin Pratt)

Survivors: Wife Bettye Pratt and Daughter Miriam

Jimi Hendrix’s Accidental Overdose and The Sole Witness

Survivors: Girlfriends Monika Dannemann and Kathy Etchingham

The Decadent Decline of Doors’ Lead Singer Jim Morrison

Survivor: Companion Pam Courson

The Consequences Of Hatred Based Presidential Campaign George Wallace

Epilogue: Post Shooting Legacy

Two Dynamic Personalities Abruptly Stolen (Bruce and Brandon Lee)

Survivor: Wife Linda Lee

The Man Who Would Have Been President (Spiro Agnew)

Epilogue: Post Resignation

Dr. Marcus Foster: The Marginalized Assassination

Survivor: Associate Robert Blackburn

The Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide?

Survivors: Zebra Killer Shooting Victims

A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of An Unwanted Distraction (Tamara Rand)

Survivor: Husband Dr. Phillip Rand

A Rampage Shooting Kills A Baltimore City Councilman (Dominic Leone)

Survivors: Shooting Victims

Ted Bundy: The Man Who Lived To Kill Women (2/9/1980)

Survivors: Wounded Victims, Long-Term Girlfriend and Wife

Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children (5/1983)

Survivors: Three Children

The Towering and Enduring Art Legacy of Pablo Picasso (1986)

Survivor: Wife Jacqueline Picasso

A Small Town Murder of a Former Big-Time Actor’s Parents (Terrence and Marie Duffy) (11/1986)

Survivor: Patrick Duffy

Denial And Unaccountability Thwart A Presidential Front Runner (Gary Hart) (5/1/1987)

Epilogue: Mistress Donna Rice

A Fatal Beating Exposes A Sect Espousing Intolerance (Mulugeta Seraw) (11/13/1988)

Survivor: Son Henock Seraw

Kurt Cobain: The Prelude and the Final Act

Survivors: Wife Courtney Love and Daughter Frances Bean Cobain

Lady Diana Spencer And Her Fatal Pont Alma Tunnel Crash

Survivors: English Royal Family

Gary Ridgway: The Green River Executioner Appearing As Evil Incarnate

Survivor: Wife Judith Mawson-Ridgway

A Four-Day Desperate Police Standoff (Joseph Palczynski)

Survivors: Hostage Whitehead and McCord Families

An Unsolved Murder With Only Motive To Sustain Suspicion (Sheila Jordan)

Survivor: Husband Kevin Jordan and Daughter Martina Jordan

The Profound Darkness of John Muhammad’s Soul (Beltway Sniper)

Survivor: Shooting Victims

Timothy Brenton: A Police Officer Ambush Motivated By Extreme Hatred

Survivor: Officer Britt Sweeney

Doug Carlile: The Unrealized Oil Field Killing For Hire

Survivor: Wife Elberta Carlile

Brittany Maynard: A Solitary Ripple Fuels An Ocean of Discussion

Survivor: Husband Dan Diaz

The Perfectly Planned Amateur Murder That Disintegrated Almost Immediately Following Its Staging (Lauren De Wise)

Survivor: Housemate Ashley Van Hemert

SOURCES AND ARCHIVES SOURCED

SeattleTimes.com, WashingotnPost.com, BaltimoreSun.com, Wikipedia.org, People.com, ChicageTribune.com, FastPeopleSearch.com, Franzen-Davis.com, The-Sun.com, NPS.gov, Heavy.com, WUSA9.com, NBCWashingotn.com, WTOP.com, WAFB.com, CNN.com, Richmond.com, USAToday.com, StyleWeekly.com, History.com, UCPlaces.com, AmericanHeritage.com, WhiteHouseHistory.org, San Francisco Chronicle, Vallejo Times Herald, Benicia Herald, Murderpedia.com, KTVU.org, NPR.org Reddit.com, RedlandsDailyFacts.com, DeadOrKicking.com, Screenrant.com, TapATalk.com, The Zebra Project.blogspot.com, Heretical.com/miscella/zebra.html, Oakland Tribune, MindControlBlackassassins.com, KQED.org, CSUEastBay.com, Smokesman.com, Spokane Daily Chronicle, SeattleTimes.com, Crosscut.com, NWPB.org, StalkingSeattle.blogspot.com, SeattleWeekly.com, KentReporter.com, CrimesAndInvestigation.co.uk, She Married the Green River Killer by Pennie Wood, LinkedIn.com, KOMONews.com, LawOfficer.com, Independent.co.uk, Memorable Paris Houses by Wilmot Harrison (1893), BonjourParis.com, The News International, Le Figaro, DeGruyter.com, HMDB.org, History.com, TheFreelancehistorywriter.com, HistoryHomes.com, Supervert.com, NewYorkTimes.com, AqrtandPopularCulture.com, IrishCentral.com, Quora.com, IrishmenInParis.org, TravelByArt.com, TheGuardian.com, NationalPost.com, Baltimorestyle.com, Smithsonianmag.com, MarylandMatters.org, AtlasObscura.com, Greenmountcemetery.com, BaltimoreOrLess.com, WBAL Radio, Washington Post, Explore.BaltimoreHeritage.org, The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America by Melissa D. Burrage, PrayForAshley.org and LyricBaltimore.com.

Photography shot during 2015-2023. Some of the locations may have altered with time and ownership changes. Many of the locations are still privately inhabited. Please don’t disturb the residents.

PREFACE:

Public attention and scrutiny has dimmed following most of these notable, tragic and publicized events, deaths and murders. Each included historical profile spawns a secondary tale concerning the surviving victims, intimate family coping with loss and the consequential aftermath. The edition highlights sixty momentous and obscure calamities and their profound effect on those left behind. In some instances the immediate trauma and impact has become lethal. In other instances, the road towards recovery has generated a profound influence on others. These accompanying survivor biographies are equally compelling and represent an important continuity to a larger perspective of understanding.

Volume One is a compilation of sixty combined well-documented and obscure biographies.

A Nearly Discarded Revolutionary Voice Becomes A Martyr

Jean-Paul Marat’s Residence (Demolished)

18 Rue de l’Ecole de Medicine, 75006 Paris

Marat’s Bathtub (Musee Grevin)

10 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris

Jean-Paul Marat was described as a man short in stature, deformed in person, and hideous in face. The fifty-year-old Marat had a debilitating skin disease that some observers suggested was syphilis. Others have claimed that is was a rare condition called dermatitis herpetiformis. His skin itched continuously with extensive blistering. He spent most of his last three years in his bathtub. He soaked in various minerals and medicines to reduce his discomfort and had a bandana soaked with vinegar wrapped around his head.

He became a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. His writings were fierce and uncompromising towards the leaders and institutions. His publication L’Ami du Peuple (Friend of the People) was unsparing in its venom and wrath. He was blamed for inciting the September Massacres that occurred during September 2-6, 1792 when approximately 1,500 prisoners were slain by radical law enforcement groups.

Forced to retire from the Revolutionary Convention due to his worsening skin condition, he continued to work and write from home where he soaked in his medicinal bath. His role in the government had waned and most of the Convention members began ignoring his letters.

On July 13, 1793, twenty-four-year old Charlotte Corday from Caen appeared at his apartment door. She claimed to have important information on escaped Girondin Party members who’d relocated to Normandy. Marat asked her to enter his bath chamber despite his wife’s protests against. For fifteen minutes they conversed. He wrote out a list of names to investigate that she had verbally provided him with. He promised her their that each would be guillotined despite no longer having the authority to do so.

Marat did not realize that Corday was a Girondin sympathizer from a ruined royalist family. She rose from her chair after their talk and withdrew a five-inch kitchen knife from her corset. She thrust the knife into his chest. The massive bleeding from the stabbing proved fatal almost instantly. His last feeble words were directed towards his wife asking for assistance.

Corday would be arrested and charged with murder. Expressing no remorse, she testified at her trial that she carried out the murder alone adding I killed one man to save 100,000. She would be convicted and guillotined on July 17. Jean-Jacques Hauer completed a haunting and pensive portrait of her a few hours before her execution. Writer Alphonse de Lamartine would later call her the Angel of Assassination.

The Revolution had added a fresh martyr to its cause partially due to a heroic painting entitled The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David.

His fabled bathtub would follow its own provenance journey. Marat’s wife sold it to her journalist neighbor. It was then purchased and relocated to Morbihan in Brittany. A journalist for Le Figaro tracked down the tub in 1885. The Musee Carnavalet refused to purchase it due to concerns regarding its ownership. The Musee Grevin had no such reservations. They acquired the tub where it remains on display.

SURVIVOR:

Marat’s wife Simonne Evrard was orphaned at the age of twelve with little known regarding her formation and background. She first encountered Marat during 1790 in the midst of one his fugitive pursuits by the authorities. Evrard and her two sisters first opened their doors to him for refuge as a safe house. His incendiary paper, L’Ami du Peuple (Friend of the People) habitually kept him blacklisted and outlawed. His escape from Jacobin party members who’d discarded his radical ideals and revolutionary moderates compelled him to seek refuge in welcoming warm beds or cellar floors. Many of his escapes were conducted within the labyrinth of sewers beneath Paris.

Evrard fell in love with his passion and ideals more than the man. She often had to persuade him to return home from his political intrigues. She generously provided him with a personal printing press. This enabled him to distribute his writings more expediently as professional printers were facing increasing governmental reprisals.

When the French Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria in April 1792, Marat vanished to London for two months fearing for his life. He left Simonne in Paris promising to marry her upon his return. They would wed outside the auspices of a formal church in a private ceremony.

Their conjugal reprieve lasted two months before he launched himself headlong into the Revolution becoming briefly a member of the government. He re-launched his paper financed by Simonne and led an insurrection that resulted in the Jacobin party taking control. This success resulted in his apex of influence. Simonne would witness this elevation. The day following his triumph, he resigned from his deputy post due to his disintegrating health.

His passages through the sewers had ravaged his body and skin forcing him to spend the majority of his hours in bed or in a medicinal bath. Simonne intimately viewed his deterioration realizing that his life was not meant for longevity. His publications began appearing infrequently, his letters to Council members went unread and his relevancy dissipated. Following his death, Simonne would give an impassioned and poetic speech to the National Convention lauding Marat’s ideals and denouncing his enemies.

She retired from public affairs, living comfortably with Marat’s sister. She continued to promote her husband’s dimming reputation and memory until her death in 1824.

The Initial First Lady of Social Prominence

Octagon House:

1799 New York Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

Dolley Madison House:

701 Madison Place NW, Washington D.C.

Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House:

21 Madison Place NW, Washington D.C.

Dolley Madison was the celebrated wife of fourth President James Madison. As first lady, she became a social conduit between political parties by staging functions where both parties could amicably intermingle without fear of violence. Prior heated social gatherings with conflicting political parties frequently resulted in physical altercations and duels.

Madison was born on May 20, 1768 in a modest log cabin in New Garden, North Carolina. Her family would relocate to Virginia where they could practice their Quaker religious beliefs and cultivate a 176-acre farm. At 15, the family relocated to Philadelphia and she was married by arrangement to local attorney John Todd in January 1790. They had two sons together.

In August 1793, a yellow fever epidemic scorched Philadelphia. Madison would lose her husband, one of her sons and her parents-in-law. Two of her older brothers would die two years later. She inherited minimal resources, but her brother-in-law serving as executor withheld the funds. She would have to sue him in court for the proceeds. Dolley, renowned for her beauty, was introduced to numerous potential suiters.

Attorney and politician Aaron Burr assisted her with legal advice He would be named the guardian of Dolley’s only surviving son, Payne Todd. Burr introduced her to his friend James Madison, 43, a longtime bachelor seventeen years older than her.

The couple married on September 15, 1794 following a brief courtship. She was expelled from the Quaker community for marrying outside of her faith. Following their marriage, Madison would complete four more years in the House of Representatives. He retired from politics and relocated to Montpelier, the Madison family plantation in Virginia.

His repose was brief. When Thomas Jefferson was elected president in 1800, he asked Madison to serve as his Secretary of State. The couple relocated to Washington D.C. Jefferson, a widower, periodically requested Dolley to serve as hostess for official ceremonial functions. She became an important element of the Washington social circle and the glue that cemented participation and relationships with many foreign ambassadors’ wives.

Towards the conclusion of Jefferson’s second term, he decided to retire. His party, the Democratic-Republican caucus nominated James Madison to replace him. Madison was elected for two terms from 1809 to 1817. Dolley Madison would achieve the pinnacle of her recognition for an act that she didn’t do herself.

In 1813, the United States resumed hostilities with England and attempted to invade Canada the following year. British forces attacked Washington D.C.  on the afternoon of August 23, 1814. As they approached the White House, a panicked household retreat became necessary. She instructed her personal slave Paul Jennings to save and carry off the premises a large portrait of George Washington. The detachment process proved slow and laborious. She instructed Jennings to break apart the frame and remove the canvas.

The canvas was successfully detached and transferred to New York for safekeeping. Madison was heralded nationally for her patriotism and composure under duress. Most accounts presumed that she had hauled the painting off single handedly.

The invading British forces would burn the White House. Dolley Madison hurried out of the city with other local families via Georgetown before crossing the Potomac into Virginia. When the couple returned on September 8th, the White House was uninhabitable. They moved into the Octagon House until February 17, 1815. Owner John Tayloe III was compensated $500 for rent during the 6-month Madison residency.

Upon the completion of the presidency, the Madison’s returned to their Montpelier plantation for the subsequent twenty years. She never anticipated the misfortunes that would darken her declining years.

Dolley’s son Payne Todd had never found a career or earned a livelihood. In 1830, he was interned in a Philadelphia debtors’ prison. The Madison sold land in Kentucky and mortgaged half of their Montpelier plantation to pay his debts.

James Madison died in 1836 and Dolley remained for a year at Montpelier organizing her husband’s presidential papers and notes from the 1787 convention. The allocated purchase by Congress appeared to maintain her financial stability for the remainder of her life. It didn’t.

In the fall of 1837, she returned to Washington D.C. and moved in with her sister Anna and husband, Massachusetts Congressman Richard Cutts on Lafayette Square. The residence had been constructed in 1819. She brought Paul Jennings to accompany her as a butler, forcing him to leave his wife and children in Virginia. She ceded Montpelier to the care of her son.

Predictably, Payne Todd could not handle the responsibility. His alcoholism and related illnesses plunged the property into massive debt. Madison was obliged to sell Montpellier, its furnishings and inventory of slaves. Her money concerns became desperate. Efforts to sell the remainder of her husband’s writings were unsuccessful.

She rescinded an earlier promise to Paul Jennings to enable his freedom. In 1846, living destitute and desperate for funds, she sold Jennings to an insurance agent for $200. Six months later, Senator Daniel Webster intervened and purchased him back. Webster compensated the agent and then officially freed Jennings. He kept Jennings employed as a paid servant often sending him to Madison’s residence with provisions and petty cash.

Her final two years were salvaged by a purchase from Congress of her husband’s remaining writings. She would die inside her home on July 12, 1849 at the age of 81. She was later interred to Montpelier beside her husband.

SURVIVOR:

Hapless Payne Todd survived his mother by two and a half years. She willed her remaining slaves to him. Upon his death, the slaves were given their freedom. His debt delayed their official release, but was officially granted in 1853. He died at the age of 60 from typhoid fever on January 16, 1952 in Washington D.C. He is buried in the Congressional Cemetery.

The Corruptible Legacy of the Notorious Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade Residences:

Rue de Conde, 75006 Paris

20, rue des-Mathurins, 75009 Paris

Sexual depravity and sadism found a welcoming quill amongst the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Debatably, no man has ever suffered more to pursue obsessive sexual perversity. His reputation and appetite for debauchery appeared insatiable. His era during the corrupt reign of Louis XV was an ideal accompaniment.

He was born on June 2, 1740 in the Conde mansion (since destroyed) to the Count and Countess of Sade. Their titles were legitimate and long standing. He was christened by accident with the name Donatien-Alphone-Francois instead of the intended first name Louis. His parents and godparents were absent for