SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis... - Lot 185 - Varenne Enchères

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SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis... - Lot 185 - Varenne Enchères
SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de [Paris, 1740 - Charenton, 1814], French novelist, essayist and playwright. Autograph letter signed (twice), addressed to Charles Gauffridi (his lawyer). 26 thermidor; 4 pages in-4. Letter of instructions and explanations in 10 points to his lawyer. About an injunction: "no I cannot make otherwise, it is necessary that the injunction takes place in all its force and content; it is necessary, it is necessary, and it is the circumstances which force me there". It is necessary to gather 7425 l. If the income does not return to you, sell the land, but make the sum because it is absolutely necessary [...] only take care of this sum, all that you do apart from that is food for the cats I tell you; throw water on the fire if the fire takes [....] but don't innovate anything, don't create anything [...] Mazan's hassle is a meanness of the English alone, a great Jacobin, a great terrorist, and in two words a beggar to be locked up [....] I commend you for not feeling sorry for this bastard; what is needed is to have him put in a hospital [...] It is he alone who has fomented this story of migration, but as I am in order I have nothing to fear [....] My friendship, my confidence in you and your family far from diminishing is increasing and you will have good proof of it in May... so leave me alone until then and cut me off at the knees... if you are not satisfied ". It is necessary to sell Mazan. He apologizes for having reproached Gauffridi, on false information, for having sent money to Mme de Sade. But he rises against his last letter: "Tell me my dear Charles if it is in Apt that one learns this logic, I take it for that of the ostrogoths or the vandals and I am I confess to you well and surprised that a boy who seems kind and well brought up like you dares to use an argument of this barbarity".
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