Marquis de Sade (1740~1814)
While de Sade mentally explored a wide range of sexual deviations, his known behavior includes "only the beating of a housemaid and an orgy with several prostitutes—behavior significantly departing from the clinical definition of sadism". [7] [8] De Sade was a proponent of free public brothels paid for by the state. Despite having no legal charge brought against him, [7] De Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life (or, after 1777, solely due to lettre de cachet and involuntary commitment ): seven years in the Château de Vincennes , five years in the Bastille , a month in the Conciergerie , two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes Convent , three years in Bicêtre Asylum , a year in Sainte-Pélagie Prison , and 12 years in the Charenton Asylum . During the French Revolution , he was an elected delegate to the National Convention ....