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He was arrested twice.
The first time was at the behest of his mother in law for abducting his sister in law and taking her out of the country, a double affront to his mother in law's aristocratic family, after she personally petitioned King Louis XVI. He was locked up in the Bastille.
The storming of the Bastille released him but even the most radical revolutionaries couldn't tolerate him when the corpses of two young women were discovered in the basement of his chateau, when the mob stormed and destroyed it. He was placed in the Charenton madhouse where he belonged.
By the way his Juliette is pretty much the only book of his worth reading, not for it's pornography and atrocities which quickly become repetitious and boring within the first few pages but for his insane philosophy which makes me laugh so hard it damn near gives me a massive hernia every time. Well at least it does in the Austryn Wainhouse translation to English which is far more funny than the original French version. Austryn Wainhouse was an authentic American literary genius.