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Word: donatien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Throughout France the lash is by no means entirely taboo, either as a subject for the profuse disquisitions of literary flagellants, or as a means of provoking those alleged pleasures and undoubted pains which were erected into a system by the notorious Count Donatien Alphonse François Sade (1740-1814), the so-called "Marquis de Sade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Abbe Flogged | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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