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 Péron Gafsa. The first part, an "Overview of physical geography", was published in 1907. The second part, "Stratigraphy of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic terrains", was published in 1908. Péron was President of the Société géologique de France (SGF) in 1905. Publications by Alphonse Péron included: Alphonse Péron Alphonse Péron (29 November 1834 – 2 April 1908) was a French soldier and amateur naturalist. He used his spare time to pursue his interest in paleontology, and authored or coauthored several important works on the geology and paleontology of France and Algeria. Pierre-Alphonse Péron was born on 29 November 1834 in Saint-Fargeau, Yonne.