1740 - 1814
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. Some of these were published under his own name during his lifetime, but most appeared anonymously or posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marquis de Sade has received more than 6,988,439 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Marquis de Sade is the 75th most popular writer (up from 77th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from France (down from 77th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Writer.
Marquis de Sade is most famous for his advocacy of sexual violence and his use of sexual violence as a literary device.
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Among writers, Marquis de Sade ranks 75 out of 5,755. Before him are Romain Rolland, Giacomo Casanova, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, Astrid Lindgren, and Giorgio Vasari. After him are Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, and Nikolai Gogol.
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 69
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 70
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 71
1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
Rank: 72
1907 - 2002
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 73
1511 - 1574
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 74
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 75
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 76
1899 - 1986
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 77
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 78
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 79
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 80
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 81
Among people born in 1740, Marquis de Sade ranks 1. After him are Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, Jeanne Baret, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1814, Marquis de Sade ranks 1. After him are Empress Joséphine, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Maria Carolina of Austria, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Matthew Flinders.
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 1
1740 - 1764
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 2
1740 - 1816
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 3
1740 - 1813
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 4
1740 - 1805
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 5
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 6
1740 - 1799
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 7
1740 - 1795
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 8
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 9
1740 - 1813
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 10
1740 - 1792
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 11
1740 - 1789
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 12
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 1
1763 - 1814
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 2
1762 - 1814
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 3
1752 - 1814
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 4
1738 - 1814
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 5
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 6
1737 - 1814
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 7
1737 - 1814
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 8
1735 - 1814
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 9
1757 - 1814
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 10
1765 - 1814
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 11
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 78 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Henri Bergson (1859), Louis de Funès (1914), Henry III of France (1551), Tacitus (54), and Pope Urban II (1042). After him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Louis the Pious (778), Caracalla (188), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), and Edward IV of England (1442).
1780 - 1867
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 72
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 73
1914 - 1983
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 74
1551 - 1589
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 75
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 76
1042 - 1099
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 77
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 78
1819 - 1877
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 79
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 80
778 - 840
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 81
188 - 217
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 82
1749 - 1827
HPI: 77.98
Rank: 83
1442 - 1483
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 84
Among writers born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 19. Before him are Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), and Romain Rolland (1866). After him are Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), Nicolas Flamel (1330), Anatole France (1844), and François Rabelais (1494).
1840 - 1902
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 13
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 14
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 15
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 16
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 17
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 18
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 19
1621 - 1695
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 20
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 21
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 22
1330 - 1425
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 23
1844 - 1924
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 24
1494 - 1553
HPI: 76.12
Rank: 25