Marquis de Sade 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. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name while others appeared anonymously, which Sade denied having written. Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, suffering, criminality, and blasphemy against Christianity. He gained notoriety for putting these fantasies into practice with both
Alphonse Boudard Alphonse Boudard Alphonse Boudard (17 December 1925 – 14 January 2000) was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for "Les Combattants du petit bonheur". Boudard's 1995 novel "Dying childhood " was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. Boudard was born in Paris, an illegitimate child. He was brought up first by an adoptive family in the Loiret region of the center of France,then by his grand mother in the south of Paris. Boudard had a late career. As a teenager he was living in a