Sade

Sade, DONATIEN ALPHONSE FRANÇOIS, MARQUIS DE, a notorious French romancer, was born at Paris, June 2, 1740, fought in the Seven Years' War, and was in 1772 condemned to death at Aix for his nameless vices. He made his escape, but was afterwards imprisoned at Vincennes and in the Bastille, where he wrote his fantastically scandalous romances, Justine (1791), La Philosophie dans le Boudoir (1793), Juliette (1798), and Les Crimes de l'Amour (1800). Afterwards he went mad, and died at Charenton, 2d December 1814. His name has supplied to his language the useful term Sadisme. See the study by Janin.