Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was born in Paris on 2 June 1740, into a family allied to the House of Condé. An officer during the Seven Years' War, he was prosecuted in cases of immorality, and the parlement of Aix handed down against him in 1772 a capital sentence in absentia. Confined at Vincennes in 1777, then at the Bastille, he was transferred from there to Charenton shortly before 14 July 1789. Arrested again in 1801, he spent his last years at Charenton, where he died on 2 December 1814, after some twenty-seven years of confinement.

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• NovelJustine, or the Misfortunes of VirtueJustine ou les Malheurs de la VertuMarquis de Sade · 1791LiteraturePublic domain