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Marquis de Sade

1740 - 1814

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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade ( SA(H)D; French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. Some of these were published under his own name during his lifetime, but most appeared anonymously or posthumously. Born into a noble family dating from the 13th century, Sade served as an officer in the Seven Years' War before a series of sex scandals led to his detention in various prisons and insane asylums for most of his adult life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marquis de Sade is the 111th most popular writer (down from 98th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from France (down from 94th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Writer.

Marquis de Sade is most famous for his advocacy of sexual violence and his use of sexual violence as a literary device.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marquis de Sade ranks 111 out of 7,302. Before him are François Rabelais, Jack London, Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. After him are José Saramago, Václav Havel, Anatole France, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Gide, and Theodor Herzl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Marquis de Sade ranks 1. After him are Ivan VI of Russia, Isabelle de Charrière, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Among people deceased in 1814, Marquis de Sade ranks 3. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. After him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Arthur Phillip, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 113 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Urban V (1310), Pope Clement VI (1291), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Poincaré (1854), Pope John XXII (1244), and Sarah Bernhardt (1844). After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Anatole France (1844), François Mitterrand (1916), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), and André Gide (1869).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 24. Before him are Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), and W. Somerset Maugham (1874). After him are Anatole France (1844), André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), and Jean Cocteau (1889).

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