Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil
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Renée Pélagie de Montreuil (December 3, 1741 - )was a plain and uneducated young aristocrat, raised in fear of God, when she was married on May 17, 1763 to the Marquis de Sade by her unscrupulous parents. He already was a libertine and atheist. Yet, from the day they met, Renée Pélagie fell passionately in love with her husband and devoted herself totally to him. It's his first and only marriage and is wife's 19 years old sister Anne-Prospère de Launay, became his mistress with his wife's blessing eight years later.
Marriage details
On May 1 1763 the French King, the Queen, and the royal family give their consent to the proposed marriage between the Marquis de Sade, allied through the Maille family to the royal blood of the Condes, and Renee-Pelagie Cordier de Launay de Montreuil (born in Paris December 3, 1741), eldest daughter of the President Claude-Rene de Montreuil and of Marie-Madeline Masson de Plissay (married August 22, 1740). On May 15 the marriage contract is signed by the parties in the town house of the President, situated rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg. The future husband signs it Louis-Aldonse-Donatien. On May 17 the marriage is celebrated in the church of Saint-Roch.