Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely ...

Yes it's Franco again with more de Sadean hijinks. This time interpreting the novel Justine, Or The Misfortunes of Virtue. The Marquis de Sade himself makes an appearance in the film - played by Klaus ...

MONSTER and rotten writer though he was, even the Marquis de Sade doesn’t deserve to be memorialized by a costume drama as ludicrously crude as “Quills.” The author of “Justine,” that classic of rape ...

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Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade and Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine ‘Maddie’ LeClerc in Philip Kaufman’s ‘Quills’ in 2000 (David Appleby/Fox ...

The chair on which France's most notorious writer, the Marquis de Sade, wrote his most shocking work goes under the hammer in Paris Wednesday with nearly 100 of his rare surviving manuscripts. The ...

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade, whose name has become a symbol of sexual cruelty, has in the 20th Century reached an extraordinary height. Exemplar of the aristocratic libertinage of late 18th ...

The Marquis de Sade was a French revolutionary politician, writer and philosopher who gifted the world with his libertine novels - Justine, Juliette and Philosophy in the Bedroom. He also produced the ...