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
John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1740) John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1740) Captain John Harvey (9 July 1740 – 30 June 1794) was an officer of the British Royal Navy whose death in the aftermath of the battle of the Glorious First of June where he had commanded terminated a long and highly successful career and made him a celebrity in Britain, a memorial to his memory being raised in Westminster Abbey. Born in 1740 at Eastry, Kent, John Harvey was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Harvey "née" Nichols, local gentry. Entering the Navy in 1754, Harvey began a long family naval tradition, taken