" Marquis de Sade"

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 -- December 2, 1814) (pronounced IPA: [maʁki dəsad]) was a French aristocrat, French revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life; eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in Conciergerie, 2 years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, 3 years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton insane asylum. Much of his writing was done during his imprisonment. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.It is said that Sade lived a scandalous libertine existence and, purportedly, repeatedly procured young prostitutes as well as employees of both sexes in his castle in Lacoste. He was also accused of blasphemy, a serious offense at that time. His behavior included an affair with his wife's sister, Anne-Prospere, who had come to live at the castle.
One of Sade's first major scandals occurred on Easter Sunday in 1768, in which he procured the sexual services of a woman, Rose Keller— whether she was a prostitute or not is widely disputed. He was accused of taking her to his chateau at Arcueil, imprisoning her there and sexually and physically abusing her. She escaped by climbing out a second-floor window and running away. It was at this time that la Presidente, Sade's mother-in-law, obtained a lettre de cachet from the king, excluding Sade from the jurisdiction of the courts. The lettre de cachet would later prove disastrous for the marquis.An episode in Marseille, in 1772, involved the non-lethal poisoning of prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly and sodomy with his manservant Latour. That year the two men were sentenced to death in absentia for sodomy and said poisoning. They fled to Italy, Sade took his wife's sister with him and had an affair with her. His mother-in-law never forgave him for that. She obtained a lettre de cachet for his arrest (a royal order of arrest and imprisonment, without stated cause or access to the courts).
In 1784 Vincennes was closed and Sade was transferred to the Bastille. On July 2, 1789 he reportedly shouted out from his cell, to the crowd outside, "They are killing the prisoners here!" causing somewhat of a riot. Two days later he was transferred to the insane asylum at Charenton near Paris. (The storming of the Bastille, marking the start of the French Revolution, occurred on July 14.)
He had been working on his magnum opus Les 120 Journées de Sodome (The 120 Days of Sodom). To his despair he believed that the manuscript was lost during his transferral; but he continued to write.
He was released from Charenton in 1790 after the new Constituent Assembly abolished the instrument of lettre de cachet. His wife obtained a divorce soon after.
Imprisonment for his writings and death
In 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette. Sade was arrested at his publisher's office and imprisoned without trial; first in the Sainte-Pélagie prison and, following allegations that he had tried to seduce young fellow prisoners there, in the harsh fortress of Bicêtre.
After intervention by his family, he was declared insane in 1803 and transferred once more to the asylum at Charenton. His ex-wife and children had agreed to pay his pension there.
Constance was allowed to live with him at Charenton. The benign director of the institution, Abbé de Coulmier, allowed and encouraged him to stage several of his plays, with the inmates as actors, to be viewed by the Parisian public. Coulmier's novel approaches to psychotherapy attracted much opposition. In 1809 new police orders put Sade into solitary confinement and deprived him of pens and paper, though Coulmier succeeded in ameliorating this harsh treatment.
In 1813, the government ordered Coulmier to suspend all theatrical performances.
Sade began an affair with 13-year-old Madeleine Leclerc, an employee at Charenton. This affair lasted some 4 years, until Sade's death in 1814. He had left instructions in his will to be cremated and his ashes scattered but, instead, he was buried in Charenton. His skull was later removed from the grave for phrenological examination. His son had all his remaining unpublished manuscripts burned, including the immense multi-volume work Les Journées de Florbelle.
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M.C.
Baron Samedi
Freiburg,20.Juni2008

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[KafkaCrow]

de Sade lives!

[psychomajic666]

I agree. Between Napolean & his son (who destroyed many of his writings upon Marquis De Sades death), alot of potentially noteable works never saw the light of day.

Marquis De Sade was truely the original philosopher of Vice!

[unefillejaune]

Omgosh, I wish I could read this. =[ I wanna learn more about this guy and there's not enough info on the internet.

[CuteCatFaith]

Uprated, favorited and shared. Good lowbar details! Greetings from France.

[CuteCatFaith]

@psychomajic666 Full Force Frank is his modern equivalent but my efforts to publish his philosophy failed last year.

[GeorgeWashingtonX]

@PurpleCloud619 "devil with angel eyes"

true that.. DeSade was a dark guy, but I believe he always aspired to tell the truth.. which (imo.) is what separated him from most of us. He didn't shy away from the truths that are dark.

peace

[Zogilla]

I want to know who performed the Vivaldi bassoon concerto starting around 3 minutes. I think it's a very beautiful recording!

[theprofligate]

Desade was a visionary. napoleon was a midget fuckoff who helped to put this brilliant man back in Charenton the insane asylum. fucking bastards.

Just imagine how many more teenage prostitutes he could've whipped to shreds at Lacoste while being buggered by his valet. lol

[PurpleCloud619]

I love The Marque, he is like a devil with angel eyes. A bit of truth with a bit of darkness.

[trashkwekwe]

@Insomniacsreflection

You said he wasn't a great writer. I'm quite sure you didn't read his writings in French, for if you had, you wouldn't say so. I can assure you that his technical abilities as a writer are remarkable, and make him one of the major artist of the whole French literature. For instance, even Flaubert, who is known as one of the finest French writer, and as a very fussy reader, was deeply admiring de Sade's style. I don't know, maybe you read a bad translation of his works...

[stevilremon1]

Marquis de Sade was and is still the shit, I have read all off his writings, well the ones that have been published and he is brilliant. Long live Sade.