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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography. His works include novels, short stories, plays ...
May 29, 2024 · Marquis de Sade (born June 2, 1740, Paris, France—died December 2, 1814, Charenton, near Paris) was a French nobleman whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. His best-known work is the novel Justine (1791).
The lurid works of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, who lived from 1740 to 1814 and died in a mental asylum, were banned in France until 1957, and the diabolical aura around his...
Nov 1, 2016 · The Marquis de Sade’s earliest work of fiction, The 120 Days of Sodom, is also his most extreme. It tells the story of four libertines – a duke, a bishop, a judge and a banker – who lock...
Aug 9, 2023 · Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat, philosopher and writer of explicit sexual works, was born in Paris in 1740. His writings depict violence, criminality and blasphemy against...
Sep 24, 2020 · During his lifetime, Sade was found guilty of sodomy, rape, torturing the 36-year-old beggar woman Rose Keller, imprisoning six children in his chateau at Lacoste, and...
Sep 28, 2018 · The Marquis de Sade (born Donatien Alphonse François de Sade; June 2, 1740—December 2, 1814) was infamous for his sexually charged writings, his revolutionary politics, and his life as one of France’s most notorious libertines.
Marquis de Sade, orig. Donatien-Alphonse-François, count de Sade, (born June 2, 1740, Paris, France—died Dec. 2, 1814, Charenton, near Paris), French novelist and philosopher. After abandoning a military career at the end of the Seven Years’ War, he married and became involved in a life of debauchery and outrageous scandal with prostitutes ...
Jun 24, 2010 · Even in the age of Fifty Shades of Grey, the 18th-century libertine is as shocking as ever. ... (end of article) “Sade’s influence has been enormous in every sphere of Modernist art,” said Laurence des Cars, one of the curators of the exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay.
Oct 6, 2014 · Sade, an unstoppable libertine, was in the middle of what would be an 11-year prison sentence, but he would not recant his principles or his tastes to get out of jail. Any...
