Jultine Author:Marquies de Sade Sades most famous novel, Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised, was written while Sade was a prisoner in the Bastille and first published in 1791. That year, Sade told a friend that he wrote it for money, tailoring it to the wishes of the printer, who asked that it be "well-spiced." Ten years later, when he was arrested for writing Justine, he... more » denied being its author. The book focuses on Justine and her sister, Juliette, young orphans who represent the two sides of human nature, virtue and vice. Justine the Virtuous suffers for her goodness; she is robbed, raped, and framed. Her tormentors are never punished; in fact Justine brings only good fortune to her abusers - they become a minster, surgeon to the king, and a millionaire.« less