HE WAS SO DISTURBED THAT NAPOLEON PRISONED HIM IN LONELY FOR THE END OF HIS LIFE
The controversial French nobleman "sponsored" the terms "sadism" and "sadomasochism". "120 Days of Sodom," a work he wrote while imprisoned in the Bastille, remains one of the most shocking stories of sexual experiments ever published. He is the Marquis de Sade and died imprisoned in a madhouse on this day in 1814.
The Marquis de Sade, whose real name was Donasien Alfonso Francois, was an aristocrat and writer. In his time, he was known for sexual scandals, and later for descriptions of specific sexual fantasies as well as the dark sides of the human personality.
The erotic fantasies of this nobleman cost prison, and later insane asylums. Of his 74 years of life, he spent as many as 32 years in prison, and his noble origins saved him from death several times.
The most perverted man in history
After that, he married the rich merchant's daughter Rene and publicly praised that he "killed the premium" because he improved the family finances, could spend her wealth and enjoy his favorite party in bed - sodomy. Even then, de Sade begins to indulge in the debauched life of a lazy nobleman - he hires actresses and prostitutes to participate in his parties, which quickly become more and more strange. It is interesting that his wife also took part in these "games" and, for a while, it seemed that de Sad found a "woman equal to himself". Even the prostitutes started saying that something dangerous was wrong with the couple de Sade and that they avoided their calls regardless of the money they offered. Those who would accept after that often went to the police to report the incredible savagery that included various means of torture, group sex and sodomy. The first big scandal happened on Easter 1768, when De Sad picked up a certain Rose from the street. The sweet-spoken Marquis took her to his castle and then subjected her to relentless sexual torture. The girl escaped by jumping out of the window on the second floor.
"Seriously ill man"
Orgies and homosexual encounters were the daily life of the marquis, and he soon became bored with the woman with whom he shared a bed. When his wife's younger sister started living with them in the castle, De Sad wasted no time - he seduced the girl, took away her innocence and started a secret affair that would later ruin his marriage from which he had two children. Rene officially divorced de Sada in 1870. By then, the Marquis already had a reputation as a seriously ill man since the "civilized world" took refuge. He thought that the greatest erotic pleasure came from pain, and he could not get aroused until he saw blood and heard screams of pain. Because of this behavior as well as the accusations of people who went through his torture, de Sad was imprisoned several times, but the title saved him from more serious punishments. Once he was sentenced to death in France, he fled to Italy and continued there as before. When the dust settled, he returned to France just in time to take part in the French Revolution.
Crime and Punishment
The Marquis de Sade wrote extensively and at length about his sexual adventures, illustrating his works with equally shocking images. Books appalled the public and were often banned. Napoleon did not like them, so he declared him a sexual predator and put him in prison again, this time condemning him to never get out of it again. De Sada eventually gave up her own family. He was declared insane and forced to be imprisoned in a madhouse and deprived of his writing utensils. He allegedly managed to seduce a 13-year-old girl there and stay in a relationship with her for a full 4 years, until his death in 1814. He was 74 years old.
From a maniac to a philosopher
“120 Days of Sodom,” a work written by the Marquis de Sade while imprisoned in the Bastille, remains one of the most shocking stories of sexual experiments ever published and is often banned for scenes of rape and torture. The Marquis de Sade thus ‘sponsored’ the terms sadism and sadomasochism, and the philosophical weight of his works gained only after the 1930s. It is known that the Marquis de Sade influenced famous French writers and poets - Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert or Guillaume Apollinaire, but the public knows little that the writer also influenced painters such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Eugene Delacroix and Gustave Moreau or sculptor Auguste Rodin.