Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade
Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo. The drawing dates to 1760, when de Sade was nearly 20 years old, and is the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis.
Born	Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-06-02)2 June 1740 Paris, France
Died	2 December 1814(1814-12-02) (aged 74) Charenton, Val-de-Marne, France
Notable work	The 120 Days of Sodom (1789) Justine (1791) Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) Juliette (1799)
Spouse(s)	Renée-Pélagie Cordier de Launay (m. 1763–1810); her death
Era	18th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Libertine, erotic
Main interests	Pornography, erotism, politics
Notable ideas	Sadomasochism
Influences Voltaire, Rousseau, Radcliffe, Diderot
Influenced Isidore Isou, Sigmund Freud, Jean Genet, Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud, Lord Byron, Georges Bataille, Samuel R. Delany, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Carter, Samuel Beckett, Jim Morrison, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, Camille Paglia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pete Doherty, Surrealism, Guy Debord, John Waters, Jacques Lacan, Susan Sontag, Nihilism

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) (French: [maʁki də sad]), was a French , revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against Christianity. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion, or law. The words sadism and are derived from his name.

Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life: 11 years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille), a month in the Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes Convent, three years in Bicêtre Asylum, a year in Sainte-Pélagie Prison, and 12 years in the Charenton Asylum. During the French Revolution, he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. Many of his works were written in prison.