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Draft:Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)[2] was a French writer and libertine most known for being the person whose name the term "sadism" was derived from.[3]
Writings[edit]
de Sade is most well known for his written works which were, to put it nicely, considered a bit much by those around him and still are viewed in that same light by many today. His work Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded[4] was considered so fucked up that Napoléon Bonaparte demanded that de Sade be imprisoned for the rest of his life upon reading it.[5] Another work of his, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue[6] was so widely disliked that even his fellow French pornographers couldn't call themselves fans, hence why one of them, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, published Anti-Justine directly to respond to de Sade.[7]
However, de Sade's most infamous work is The 120 Days of Sodom,[8] which he wrote while imprisoned in the 1780s[9] (de Sade was imprisoned a number of times, spending a total of around thirty-two years of his life behind bars[10]).
References[edit]
- ↑ Who Was the Marquis de Sade?
- ↑ Biography of Marquis de Sade, French Novelist and Libertine
- ↑ sadism
- ↑ Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded by Marquis de Sade. Original in French, 1797.
- ↑ Literature / Juliette
- ↑ Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marqus de Sade
- ↑ Anti-Justine by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
- ↑ The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
- ↑ 10 Pieces of Lost Literature
- ↑ Marquis de Sade: depraved monster or misunderstood genius? It’s complicated