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 ...

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.

Alberto Giacometti, “Sketches of a Woman and Man Wielding a Sword” (c. 1951), pencil on a notebook page, 29.2 x 47.2 cm; © Succession Alberto Giacometti ...

The Marquis de Sade’s original draft of The 120 Days of Sodom has returned to France, according to the AFP. The 39-foot-long manuscript was penned in his Bastille cell and found there in 1789. Paris’s ...

Journey back to the Paris of the Marquis de Sade by strolling around the Marais, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. © CHICUREL Arnaud/Hemis/Corbis The Marquis ...

New York City-born and current French resident Fernanda Eberstadt tells the tale in Bite Your Friends of some of those whose bodies were made into artistic-political sites of cultural ...

A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendant of the ...