A new Paris exhibition is to celebrate the life of the Marquis de Sade on the bicentenary of his death. The Marquis de Sade, the 19<sup>th-century writer who gave the world the word "sadist", will be ...

The recently opened exhibition Sade, attacking the sun at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris carries an unusual warning - a first tip that this is not your normal cultural experience. “The violent nature of ...

It’s been almost two centuries since his death, yet French writer the Marquis de Sade has lost none of his ability to trigger moral debate. In Asia, South Korea has lifted a monthlong ban on his ...

The Marquis de Sade was a French revolutionary politician, writer and philosopher who gifted the world with his libertine novels - Justine, Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom. He also produced the ...

The first time I learned about “Loab,” it sent shivers down my spine. A strange dead-eyed ghoul that began haunting an AI image generator last year, Loab reminded me of a fiend I’d been tracking for ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Fancy some 232-year old pornography, written in the Bastille and hidden behind a stone? Or something more intellectually stimulating? How about mathematical equations sketched by ...

Every afternoon, I climbed up the castle steps and banged on the wooden door, hoping that Pierre Cardin might show me around the Marquis de Sade’s dungeon, but the only answer was a dismal silence.

The Marquis de Sade, who was born in 1740 and died in 1814, was a passionate gourmet, and especially loved baked apples and vanilla custards for dessert. He also fancied Provençal delicacies such as ...

What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abbot to stop one of its patients – the Marquis de Sade – from writing? Luna ...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a bestselling author in his day and yet he spent most of his life behind bars. His novels inspired the term “sadist” - “a person who derives pleasure, ...