Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Personal Info:
KNOWN FOR
Writing
GENDER
male
BIRTHDAY
1740-06-02
DAY OF DEATH
1814-12-02
PLACE OF BIRTH
Paris, France
ALSO KNOWN AS
Donatien Alphonse François de SadeMarquis de SadeMarquês de SadeMarqués de SadeMarchese de SadeMarkies de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
BIOGRAPHY
Born a rich nobleman, Marquis being his title rather than his birth name, De Sade gradually became a decadent libertine among the French society of Louis XVI. A liberally educated iconoclast, he wrote prose and verse, and specialized in testing the limits of decency, breaking taboos and shocking the aristocracy, often with sordid details drawn from real life. He was thought to have committed much of the perversions and debauchery he had written about. He was incarcerated in an asylum shortly before the French Revolution. After a decade of feverish creativity, he willingly gave up writing and lived his remaining years in uneventful calm.
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