Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his erotic ...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a bestselling author in his day and yet he spent most of his life behind bars. His novels inspired the term “sadist” - “a person who derives pleasure, ...

A new book by Joel Warner traces the fate of the parchment on which the infamous author wrote “120 Days of Sodom,” a trail involving scholars, aristocrats and thieves — and lots of money. By Kevin ...

'IN order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice' — or so said Marquis de Sade, the 18th century French aristocrat and writer, remembered more for his scandalous lifestyle than his ...

“Faut-il bruler Sade?” asked the pioneering feminist Simone de Beauvoir in a famous essay, first published by Les Temps modernes in 1951. Must we burn the works of the Marquis de Sade? Her answer, ...