Marquis de Sade
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Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis
de Sade (June 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814) was a French
aristocrat, French revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often
violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least
licentiousness), unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit
of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in
various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life;
eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in
Conciergerie, 2 years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, 3 years in
Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton insane
asylum. Much of his writing was done during his imprisonment. The term
"sadism" is derived from his name. |