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Marquis de Sade

1740 - 1814

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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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  • 7.0M

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  • 78.22

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  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.55

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  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marquis de Sade ranks 75 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Marquis de Sade ranks 1After 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 1After 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 78 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 19Before 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).