PARIS — Georges Bataille, in The Accursed Share, said that if the Marquis de Sade had not existed, he would have had to been invented. But probably one of the biggest badasses of all time did exist.

The recently opened exhibition Sade, attacking the sun at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris carries an unusual warning - a first tip that this is not your normal cultural experience. “The violent nature of ...

Two hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, King Louis XVI of France lost his head. His execution by guillotine was a precursor of the Reign of Terror, a 10-month period from 1793 to 1794 when ...

Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade and Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine ‘Maddie’ LeClerc in Philip Kaufman’s ‘Quills’ in 2000 (David Appleby/Fox ...

“Faut-il bruler Sade?” asked the pioneering feminist Simone de Beauvoir in a famous essay, first published by Les Temps modernes in 1951. Must we burn the works of the Marquis de Sade? Her answer, ...

De Sade (1969) also known as Das Ausschweifende Leben des Marquis De Sade is a compelling and absorbing American-German historical drama thriller film. Directed by Cy Endfield and Roger Corman, the ...

His time in the Bastille, one of the most notorious jails in Europe, had taken its toll on the Marquis de Sade, a man whose arresting blue eyes and curly blond hair had once so beguiled women, they ...

Lacoste château, once owned by the infamous Marquis, is now an arts space among the ruins, thanks to the fabled fashion designer Provence has its fair share of heart-stoppingly beautiful hill-top ...

Incest: Sexual intercourse between people who are too closely related to marry (as between brother and sister or father and daughter). It was sometime in May this year when I was strolling through the ...