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The Marquis de Sade ,byname of Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, was born on June 2, 1740, in Paris France. He was the only surviving child to the aristocratic family of Jean-Baptiste de Sade and his wife Marie-Eléonore de Maillé.. At the age of four, de Sade was sent to Avifnon into the care of his uncle, Abbe de Sade. Little is known about him from age four until after his entrance into college at Jesuit college of Louis Le Grand. From the ages of fourteen to to twenty-six de Sade was in the active military service, and served in the Seven Years War ( 1754-1761). Two years later in 1763, at the wishes of his parents, de Sade married Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, a rich young aristocrat girl. Although married, de Sade continued to keep a Mistress. Many times over the course of the next several years, de Sade found himself in prison on various different charges. The most famous being for his enjoyment of cruelty amongst the women that he was sexually involv