The Sades were an old, albeit no longer rich noble family of Provence, which originally had the count’s title (French comte). Grandfather Gaspard-François de Sade was the first family member to use the higher title of Marquis. Donatien de Sade was born on June 2, 1740, in the Paris City Palace of the Condés, a branch of the royal family of the Bourbons, to whom his mother Marie-Eléonore de Maillé de Carman was related. – Marquis de Sade, Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (1787) A No Longer Rich Noble Family “…there is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people…” On March 6, 1801, French novelist Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, was arrested for being the author of the anonymously published book ‘ Justine or the Misfortune of Virtue‘ by order of Napoleon Bonaparte. Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740 – 1814)
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