“The Curse of the Marquis de Sade” is nevertheless more demure than one might expect. Warner’s narrative tracks the scroll across centuries but never really delves into its content.

The Marquis de Sade, one of the most infamous names in all of writing, was an 18th century French aristocrat, a man known for debauchery and evading authorities, ...

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 ...

Marquis de Sade (Donatien de Sade) was born into an aristocratic Provençal family in 1740. A sexual libertine, revolutionary politician and writer, he is best known for his scandalous works ...

In "The Curse of the Marquis de Sade," Joel Warner traces the course of "120 Days of Sodom" from the 18th-century Bastille through the 21st-century legal system.

AT HOME WITH THE MARQUIS DE SADE By Francine du Plessix Gray Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50 By family tradition and inheritance, Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) should ...

The author was the infamous Marquis de Sade. De Sade thought his novel to be the "most impure tale ever written." It depicted graphic scenes of sexual violence, torture and murder.

In 1995, Doug Wright wrote "Quills" for the stage and won an Obie for it. It was a brainy piece of Grand Guignol about the Marquis de Sade's stay at the Charenton insane asylum.

Marquis De Sade. News About Marquis De Sade Here Are Some of the Worst Beach Reads You ever see some guy at the beach knee-deep in Marquis de Sade's 1785 classic The 120 Days of Sodom, and ...

The Marquis de Sade’s earliest work of fiction, The 120 Days of Sodom, is also his most extreme. It tells the story of four libertines – a duke, a bishop, a judge and a banker ...