Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was born on 2 June 1740, in the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, to Jean Baptiste François Joseph, Count de Sade and Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman, cousin and Lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Condé. He was his parents' only surviving child. He was educated by an uncle, the Abbé de Sade. In Sade's youth, his father abandoned the family; his mother joined a convent. He was raised with servants who indulged "his every whim," which led to his becoming "known as a rebellious and spoiled child with an ever-growing temper." Later in his childhood,
French ship Mars (1740) 1755 on a rock (now known as Mars Rock) near Halifax Harbour. French ship Mars (1740) Mars was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French Navy. "Mars"' was captured by off Cape Clear in 1746. She taken into Royal Navy service as HMS "Mars" and was wrecked in 1755 near Halifax, Nova Scotia. She took part in the action that took off Ushant on 8 May 1744. "Le Mars" was captured by HMS "Nottingham" off Cape Clear, off Ireland in 1746. Commissioned in March 1747, under the command of Captain Edward Hawke. While on a voyage from