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Juliette becomes a prostitute and marries a rich noble. Justine is set just before the french revolution in france and tells the story of a young girl who goes under the name of therese. It contains relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Justine or the misfortunes of virtue, or several other titles. Justine ovvero le disavventure della virtu is a 1969 film directed by jesus franco. Justine sade novel project gutenberg selfpublishing. Additional gift options are available when buying one ebook at a time.