Marquis de Sade surrounding Matthew Lewis' "The Monk", Minerva Press released "The New Monk" as a supposed indictment of a wholly immoral book. It features the sadistic Mrs. Rod, whose boarding school for young women becomes a torture chamber equipped with its own "flogging-room". Ironically, "The New Monk" wound up increasing the level of cruelty, but as a parody of the genre, it illuminates the link between sadism and the Gothic novel. Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality.
Alphonse Lavallée its first president ("directeur"). The first location of the school was the "Hôtel de Juigné" building in the Marais district, which has now become the Musée Picasso. His son, Pierre Alphonse Martin Lavallée (1836–1884), created an arboretum in the park of the "Château de Segrez" in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne), which was one of the biggest in Europe at the time. He died in Paris on May 15, 1873 at the age of 75 and is buried in the "Père Lachaise" Cemetery. Alphonse Lavallée Alphonse Lavallée (1791–1873) is the founder of the École Centrale Paris, a French "Grande École". He was born