Word: eponym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
...Gilbert Lély. From Vincennes prison and the lunatic asylum at Charenton, the Marquis de Sade wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet hoping that someone would understand him. He remains an enigma whose habit of acting out monstrous fantasies made his name an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
...jailers in the big prison at Vincennes called him Monsieur le 6. The name of the arrogant prisoner in the tower had not yet become an eponym for conscienceless cruelty, but there was something about him that the warders did not like, and they preferred to poke his dinner to him through a trapdoor in the floor...