Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced ... He went onto write Justine, or The Misfortunes of Justice, which was described by Napoleon ...

Prices for Marquis de Sade at auction go up to 450 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork ...

Maligned, misconstrued and I suspect, little read, the Marquis de Sade remains not only one of the great moralists of the eighteenth century, but also the prototypical exponent of sexual psychology.