The recently opened exhibition Sade, attacking the sun at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris carries an unusual warning - a first tip that this is not your normal cultural experience. “The violent nature of ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Fancy some 232-year old pornography, written in the Bastille and hidden behind a stone? Or something more intellectually stimulating? How about mathematical equations sketched by ...

A new exhibition at Paris's Musée d'Orsay explores the influence of the notorious Marquis de Sade. Photo: Francois Guillot/AFP A new exhibition at Paris's famous Musée d'Orsay explores how the ...

PARIS — Georges Bataille, in The Accursed Share, said that if the Marquis de Sade had not existed, he would have had to been invented. But probably one of the biggest badasses of all time did exist.

The Gozitan art gallery Arthall in Victoria will be hosting a talk on the French novelist and philosopher Marquis de Sade and his influence on Western culture. The talk will be given by Erin Steele, ...

FRANCE, Boulogne-Billancourt : This picture taken on May 21, 2014 in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, shows a moulding of the skull of French writer the Marquis de Sade, made in 1820, on a 1801 ...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a bestselling author in his day and yet he spent most of his life behind bars. His novels inspired the term “sadist” - “a person who derives pleasure, ...

Ostensibly a film about the Marquis de Sade's last years in incarceration, the makers have stated that it is not meant to be an exact detailing of his life but more a reimagining. Besides tackling the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In "Quills," a gentle priest (Antonio Rodriguez, left) tries to make the Marquis de Sade (Ted Gregory) control himself. But fans ...

Jacqueline West stitched her own bedsheets into a best costume Oscar nomination for Quills. They weren't just any old run-of-the-mill, January-white-sale sheets, of course. West bought the vintage bed ...