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'''Donatien -Alphonse Francois-François de Sade''' ([[June 2]], [[1740]] - [[December 2]], [[1814]]) was a French aristocrat and author. He is better known as the Marquis de Sade.

De Sade was born in the CondeCondé palace in [[Paris]]. He wrote ''[[Justine]]''(1791), ''[[Juliette]]'' (1798), ''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]]'' (written in 1785, see also [[Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma]]), ''[[Aline and Valcour]]'' (1795), ''[[Philosophy in the Boudoir]]'' (1795), and ''[[Crimes of Love]]'' (1800) as well as a number of plays.

Initially he followed a [[military]] career. In the [[1760s]] he married, but at the same time he began living a scandalous libertine existence. He was convicted of acts of depravity and sent to [[prison]]. He was sentenced to death in [[1772]] but reprieved. He was imprisoned again in [[1777]] in the [[Bastille]] in Paris, and in the asylum at [[Charenton]], but was freed in [[1790]]. In [[1801]] he was arrested for having written ''Justine''. From [[1803]] until his death he was confined again to Charenton.