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.
French ship Apollon (1740) along with several other ships in wrecked in Louisbourg harbor, were later salvaged by the citizens of Louisbourg and used as building materials. French ship Apollon (1740) Apollon was an 18th-century ship of the line in service with the Royal French Navy. She was launched in 1740 at Rochefort as a two-decked ship of the line of the "Vaisseaux de 50" class of warships. During her career, she was armed with between 50 and 58 canon. During the War of the Austrian Succession, she engaged and captured the 45-gun HMS Anglesea after the British ship was rendered inoperable. "Apollon" was