Marquis de Sade bibliography by censorship: not until 1983 were his works allowed unfettered distribution in the UK, for instance. Marquis de Sade bibliography Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. His works evidence a philosophical mind advocating a materialist philosophy in which Nature dictates absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. Besides novels, he wrote philosophical tracts, novellas, short tales, and a number of plays (many
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