WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marquis de Sade has received more than 7,603,424 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Marquis de Sade is the 98th most popular writer (down from 75th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from France (down from 78th in 2019) and the 22nd 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Idée sur les romans
History and criticism, Fiction, French fiction
1900
Justine
Facsimiles, Manuscripts, Novela erótica
1930
La marquise de Gange
1957
Correspondances du marquis de Sade et de ses proches enrichies de documents, notes et commentaires
1991
La philosophie dans le boudoir
1795
Les infortunes de la vertu
Classic Literature, Fiction
Le triomphe de la philosophie serait de jeter du jour sur l'obscurite des voies dont la providence se sert pour parvenir aux fins qu'elle se propose sur l'homme, et de tracer d'apres cela quelque plan de conduite qui put faire connaitre a ce malheureux individu bipede, perpetuellement ballotte par les caprices de cet etre qui, dit-on, le dirige aussi despotiquement, la maniere dont il faut qu'il interprete les decrets de cette providence sur lui, la route qu'il faut qu'il tienne pour prevenir les caprices bizarres de cette fatalite a laquelle on donne vingt noms differents, sans etre encore parvenu a la definir.
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marquis de Sade ranks 98 out of 7,302. Before him are Jack London, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emily Brontë, Matsuo Bashō, and George Sand. After him are Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Paulo Coelho, and Abu Nuwas.

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Contemporaries

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, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1814, Marquis de Sade ranks 2. Before him is Empress Joséphine. After him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Maria Carolina of Austria, Benjamin Thompson, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 94 out of 6,770. Before him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), and George Sand (1804). After him are Caracalla (188), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Claude Debussy (1862), Louis XI of France (1423), and François Mitterrand (1916).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marquis de Sade ranks 22. Before him are Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), and George Sand (1804). After him are André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Anatole France (1844), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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