SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis... - Lot 184 - Varenne Enchères

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SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis... - Lot 184 - Varenne Enchères
SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de [Paris, 1740 - Charenton, 1814], French novelist, essayist and playwright. Autograph letter, signed "Sade," addressed to his steward, M. Ripert père. 23 Xbre 1806; 3 pages in-4°, address with postal mark 60/Charenton, tears on the 3rd page due to the opening of the letter, with loss of one letter, small holes through the paper, browning. "I assure you my dear and old friend that the news you give me of your son, makes me infinitely sad, I don't know what fatal presentiment had foreshadowed the misfortune that has befallen him, but as I embraced him (and M. Quesnel noticed), I felt an involuntary movement of a sadness stronger than myself, but fortunately he will be fine, and you must already have news of his convalescence. [...Let us console ourselves with this accident by the certain idea that he will surely rise in rank; he will surely have a regiment and other favors; for you know as well as I do that he serves a good master and that the Emperor has never left officers wounded in his service in oblivion; it is fortunate that he has the cross; Because it is absolutely necessary to give him something else at present, inform me of everything that could happen to him that is fortunate, I beg you, and believe that I take and will always take as much interest in it as if it were my own family. A word about my affairs, now that you are willing to take an interest in them: I am obliged to you for what you have uncovered in order to provide me with some funds which I find I absolutely need at this time. I accept the arrangement of the lease of the two united objects of the castle and the garden and of what surrounds it, and agree to lease them at the price of nine hundred pounds to the person of whom you speak to me. But I would like a bribe equivalent to one year's rent, that is to say nine hundred livres, and here is how it could be arranged, the deal would be done what is called by anticipation; the new farmer, by signing the deed, would pay me a year's rent in advance, which he would reimburse at the end of his lease, and this reimbursement, made by the farmer who would take over at that time, that is to say, at the end of the lease of the one you are proposing to me, would pay this year; no one would be harmed by this means. Combine well, minute what I propose to you and if they agree, and that you find this plan good for me. Send me a model of power of attorney immediately and I will send it back to you signed by the next mail [...]. As for the castle, I hope that you will only rent it to someone who is sure of it, and who will not let anything deteriorate in it.As for what you are offering in relation to some reimbursement of land annuities, I feel that I must lose; but try not to lose more than half of it and find me some similar business, I will finish it right away. Those who want to contract with me on this object should hurry up, because there is a lot of talk about giving this object back, and the more this noise gains strength, the more difficult I will make myself, so let them take me at half at this moment and I will do whatever they want. I thank you for what you tell me on the occasion of the Saumane wood, but extend yourself in your answer and tell me in what way I will get money from it. I also thank you for the papers you gave to Courtois. I beg you to hide carefully from him the operations that we are going to conclude together. [...] Believe me for life your most affectionate friend. Sade".
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