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 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