French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
1It's from the de Sade name that the term sadism is derived.
2The legacy of torturous French writing certainly predates the likes of de Sade.
3Of course, de Sade's mother-in-law didn't like that, and she had him imprisoned.
4The Marquis de Sade was at least once arrested for sodomy.
5Next, the Bardism the Marquis de Sade would have spoken, in Shakespearean language:
6It has been a ruinous experience, a schedule designed by Marquis de Sade.
7She had a considerable fortune, and was married in 1325 to Hugh de Sade.
8I have been reading André Gide in French, the Marquis de Sade and Casanova.
9It was under the abbe's tutelage that de Sade passed much of his youth.
10The Marquis de Sade, by the way, was really fat.
11OF AMPLIFICATION by Geoffrey Gorer on Edmund Wilson's book review on the Marquis de Sade.
12That is Laura, the wife of Hugh de Sade.
13The same poor man had shared prison for a time with the Marquis de Sade.
14At the age of twenty-three, he first met Laura de Sade in a church at Avignon.
15Yet Hugh de Sade grew annoyed and sent a respectful request to Petrarch to omit it.
16In between it takes in Voltaire and de Sade, European and American politics and Jean-Marie's obsession, food.