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Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de
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French novelist, who, after fighting in the Seven Years' War, was sentenced to death for odious crimes, effected his escape, but was caught and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he wrote a number of licentious romances; died a lunatic (1740-1814).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/sade-donatien-alphonse-franois-marquis-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.