PARIS (Reuters) - Fancy some 232-year old pornography, written in the Bastille and hidden behind a stone? Or something more intellectually stimulating? How about mathematical equations sketched by ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The auction of one of the world's earliest and most sordid erotic novels -- the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" -- has been halted after the French state declared it a national ...

A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendant of the ...

PARIS — Fancy some 232-year-old pornography, written in the Bastille and hidden behind a stone? Or something more intellectually stimulating? How about mathematical equations sketched by quantum ...

Jacqueline West stitched her own bedsheets into a best costume Oscar nomination for Quills. They weren't just any old run-of-the-mill, January-white-sale sheets, of course. West bought the vintage bed ...

“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, ...

The Marquis de Sade, who was born in 1740 and died in 1814, was a passionate gourmet, and especially loved baked apples and vanilla custards for dessert. He also fancied Provençal delicacies such as ...

'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 ...