Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, had what would be one of the most coveted front-row seats in history, if tickets were sold for such things: in 1789, he was among the (seven) inmates freed ...

The French state has acquired the original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" for over $5 million, safeguarding for the country a work declared a national treasure, the culture ...

The French government stepped in Monday to declare the manuscript of the Marquis de Sades "120 Days of Sodom" a national treasure as it was about to be sold at auction in Paris. They were part of a ...

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 ...

You ever see some guy at the beach knee-deep in Marquis de Sade's 1785 classic The 120 Days of Sodom, and think "What's that guy's deal?" You ever see somebody dragging along a minor library next to ...

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) Pasolini’s legendary provocation transposes the Marquis de Sade to Fascist Italy in 1944 as eighteen teenage boys and girls are kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable ...

Reception for the artist and performance by the jazz composer Brian Jackson and trio Saturday June 9: 6:00 to 8:00 – open to the public Clemens Weiss, a New York based artist who also works in Germany ...

We must not decontextualize the Marquis de Sade. He was a product of his epoch. Born in 1740, died in 1814, he was an aristocrat who survived the French Revolution. Sade was in the Bastille when it ...