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 ...

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade, whose name has become a symbol of sexual cruelty, has in the 20th Century reached an extraordinary height. Exemplar of the aristocratic libertinage of late 18th ...

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 ...

Two hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, King Louis XVI of France lost his head. His execution by guillotine was a precursor of the Reign of Terror, a 10-month period from 1793 to 1794 when ...

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 ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine. In ...

A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendant of the ...