French author — “Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.” — -Marquis de Sade Marquis de Sade, by name of Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade, (born June 2, 1740, Paris, France — died December 2, 1814, Charenton, near Paris), French nobleman whose perverse sexual…