2 December; On this day in 1814, the Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat whose perverted lifestyle gave the word sadism to the language, died in an asylum.

The play by Peter Weiss titled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade, or Marat/Sade for short, is a fictional account of Sade directing a play in Charenton, where he was confined for many years.

Judy Collins sings MARAT/SADE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvW2v9dUjI8 Judy Collins