Today Is...Marquis de Sade Dies

He is probably best known amongst the whips and chain crowd, given that the Frenchman's major legacy is leaving the world the practice of sado-machism and bringing explicit material to people in a time when showing off your ankles was scandalous, think 50 shades of grey but with more berets and garlic.
His books of sexual debauchery was somewhat de rigueur in aristocratic circles, he said that he just wrote about what he saw but it was just that he was particularly perverse and particularly open about his proclivities and this was in a time when the upper classes were hardly any cleaner than the commoners, just getting to a person's genitals required a stiff wire brush and a chisel.
The things he wrote, said and even did would make anyone's mother blush while clutching her pearls in disbelief but he spent a lot of time behind bars for them.
In fact, 32 years of his 74 years long life were spent either incarcerated or doing things that would get him incarcerated but it was while he was imprisoned that he did his best literary work.
His first serious charge was a doozy, he tried to convince a sex worker to use the holy cross for a purpose where no holy cross had gone before but she reported him and he was charged with blasphemy, which led to his very first arrest.
At some point he decided that he needed to settle down with a nice girl so he married a religious, reserved woman who organised orgies, prostitutes, hid his harem of young girls from the police and during his many stints in jail, made sure he was provided with the essentials, which in his case consisted mostly of gags, drugs and dildos.
His mother in law shockingly, didn't approve of her daughter's marriage to the guy who invented sadism and was responsible for many of his stints in jail so in an attempt to make peace, he had sex with another one of her daughters on the side although to his surprise, it only made things worse.
Being the grand poobah of Perverts had to catch up with him some time, he had problems retaining any staff as few maids and servants responded well to his attempting to bugger them while they served supper and after a set of maids fled his chateau, the father of one of the maids attempted to shoot him at point-blank range but lucky for him, the gun misfired and he escaped.
He was actually thrown out of one prison one for disturbing and seducing the prisoners, he was even thrown into the Bastille just as it was being stormed but far from it ending in seven free prisoners, it ended with six free ones and him being taken to another nuthouse for being a sexually deviant.
He finally died in prison today in 1814, while having an affair with a teenager who worked there so for him that is probably a very happy ending.