Marquis de Sade: References & Edit History
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Biographical studies are Gilbert Lély, The Marquis de Sade (1961); Donald Thomas, The Marquis de Sade (1976); Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography (1978); Maurice Lever, Sade (1993; originally published in French, 1991); Francine du Plessix Gray, At Home with the Marquis de Sade (1998); Laurence L. Bongie, Sade: A Biographical Essay (1998); and Neil Schaeffer, The Marquis de Sade (1999). Lawrence W. Lynch, The Marquis de Sade (1984), is a useful critical introduction to his works. Colette Verger Michael, The Marquis de Sade: The Man, His Works, and His Critics (1986), is a full-length annotated bibliography.
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| Anniversary information added. | May 29, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: BBC Sounds - Whos afraid of the Marquis de Sade? | Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Education, Mastery and the Marquis de Sade (PDF). | Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: McMaster University - Faculty of Humanities - Eighteenth-Century Fiction - The Marquis de Sade and Courtly Love (PDF). | Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Omnibus - Marquis De Sade. | May 17, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Whos afraid of the Marquis de Sade? | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Marquis de Sade. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Replaced media. | May 14, 2018 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| In the Assessment section, added that his books are no longer banned in France. | Jun 26, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: h2g2 - The Life of the Marquis de Sade. | Mar 15, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Donatien Alphonse Fran�ois comte de Sade. | Mar 15, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Marquis de Sade. | Aug 27, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Biography Project - Biography of Marquis de Sade. | Sep 14, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 28, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Aug 23, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: h2g2 - The Life of the Marquis de Sade. | Jun 13, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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