Marquis de Sade bibliography Marquis de Sade bibliography Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. His works evidence a philosophical mind advocating a materialist philosophy in which Nature dictates absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. Besides novels, he wrote philosophical tracts, novellas, short tales, and a number of plays (many of which no longer extant). Publication, dissemination, and translation of his works have long been hindered
Alphonse Brot Alphonse Brot Charles Alphonse Brot (12 April 1807 – 3 January 1895) was a prolific French author and playwright. Charles Alphonse Brot was born on 12 April 1807 in Paris. He studied at the Lycee Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet), in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Brot became a member of the romantic literary group "les Jeunes-France" (Young France), sometimes called "les Bouzingos", which also included Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Jules Vabre, Petrus Borel, Philothée O’Neddy, Augustus McKeat, Aloysius Bertrand, Joseph Bouchardy, Louis Boulanger, Achille Devéria, Eugène Devéria, Célestin Nanteuil and Jehan de Seigneur. He wrote many well-received dramas.