Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was born on 2 June 1740, in the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, to Jean Baptiste François Joseph, Count de Sade and Marie Eléonore de Maillé de Carman, cousin and Lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Condé. He was his parents' only surviving child. He was educated by an uncle, the Abbé de Sade. In Sade's youth, his father abandoned the family; his mother joined a convent. He was raised with servants who indulged "his every whim," which led to his becoming "known as a rebellious and spoiled child with an ever-growing temper." Later in his childhood,
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Karr was born in Paris, and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, "Sous les Tilleuls" (1832), were autobiographical romances. A second novel, "Une heure trop tard", followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works. His "Vendredi soir" (1835) and "Le Chemin le plus court" (1836) continued the vein of autobiographical romance with which he had made his first success. "Geneviève" (1838) is one of his