We are in the Vendée region of western France, and it is 1793. Those aristocrats who support the king are going to have to fight, and suffer, for their cause. When the revolutionaries arrive at Grand Lieu and discover the beautiful Diane, they take their chances and kidnap her. Woe betide her fate.

But Diane de Grand Lieu knows how to keep the plans of the counter-revolutionaries secret. The Baron de Grand Lieu has trained his daughter to resist sexual abuse by raping her himself, in the name of God and the King. And when he wanted to give her an even more effective lesson, he delivered her to a pack of toothless peasants who took enormous pleasure in stuffing the delicate young girl in every hole. Surely after this shock treatment, Diane should be able to endure the worst tortures of the revolutionaries without being terminally broken.

In the two volumes of Diane de Grand Lieu (the sequel was published in 2004) Bernard Dufossé keeps his Sadean vision going in spades, the courageous Diane surviving the multiple penetrations of every brigand, ruffian, desperado, thug and freebooter imaginable. Extreme, intelligent, brilliantly drawn, Diana is ‘Kovacq’s masterpiece; sadly again only in French, but a visual feast nonetheless.

The two volumes of Diane de Grand Lieu were published by Internationale Presse Edition’s Bédéadult imprint.