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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (/ s ɑː d, s æ d / SA(H)D; [3] French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
He worked his passage home aboard a cattle freighter in about 1933, working first in film sales before moving into film production as assistant director on a 1936 comedy quickie Apron Fools. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The money he made on his passage home went to finance the brothers' first work, a short entitled Ripe Earth (1938), [ 10 ] about the ...
Bonington's father, who left the family when Christian was nine months old, was a founding member of L Detachment, Special Air Service. [1] Bonington first began climbing in 1951 at age 16. [2]