Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de, French novelist, who, after fighting in the Seven Years' War, was sentenced to death for odious crimes, effected his escape, but was caught and imprisoned in the Bastille, where he wrote a number of licentious romances; died a lunatic (1740‒1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sadducees * Sádi