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[SADE (Donatien-Alphonse-François). Set of 10 letters and documents. - INVENTORY AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSEPH DE SADE (distant cousin of the marquis), signed by the experts appointed and by the heirs or their curators, including Augustin de Sade, seigneur de Vauredonne, curator of Joseph de Sade's son, Henry Véran de Sade. 1779 (about 70 pp. in-folio). INCLUDES A CATALOGUE OF HIS LIBRARY, composed mainly of literary, philosophical and historical books, including Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's L'Émile, Mirabeau's L'Ami des hommes, Buffon's Histire naturelle, Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (16 pp.). Joseph de Sade belonged to a branch of Eyguières, collateral to that of Mazan from which Donatien-Alphonse-Françoise de Sade descended. - 3 PIECES OF PROCEEDINGS PRODUCED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AN INTENSIVE TRIAL BY DONATIEN-ALPHONSE-FRANÇOISE DE SADE AND BY HIS UNCLE THE ABBE DE SADE as lords of Saumane, to the consuls and the community of Carpentras before the Chamber of Estates of the Comtat-Venaissin, located in Carpentras. 1768 (about 2 pp. in all; one piece incomplete from the beginning). - 5 LETTERS FROM MEMBERS OF THE DE SADE FAMILY: 2 autographed letters signed by Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade's son, Louis-Marie, mentioning financial matters of interest to him and his father ("You can probably finally get something for my father... which will please him all the more as he is always in need of money...", 1798, "... My father has finally obtained the supervision...", n.d.); 2 autograph letters signed by other members of the de Sade family (1806 and n.d.). - Autograph letter signed "Jean" to the notary Jean-Antoine Fage in Apt (1806) explaining to him his steps to find the Marquis de Sade in order to give him a summons to appear: "... I had to go to St-Ouin where I was told that, FOR FOUR YEARS MR DE SADE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY..., HE LIVED AS IF IN HIDDEN WITH MAD[AM]E DU QUUINET [Marie-Constance Quesnet, mistress of the Marquis de Sade]...". - A letter evoking historiographic research in Sade's papers (Elzéar Prin, 1864?).
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[SADE (Donatien-Alphonse-François). Set of 10 letters and documents. - INVENTORY AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSEPH DE SADE (distant cousin of the marquis), signed by the experts appointed and by the heirs or their curators, including Augustin de Sade, seigneur de Vauredonne, curator of Joseph de Sade's son, Henry Véran de Sade. 1779 (about 70 pp. in-folio). INCLUDES A CATALOGUE OF HIS LIBRARY, composed mainly of literary, philosophical and historical books, including Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's L'Émile, Mirabeau's L'Ami des hommes, Buffon's Histire naturelle, Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (16 pp.). Joseph de Sade belonged to a branch of Eyguières, collateral to that of Mazan from which Donatien-Alphonse-Françoise de Sade descended. - 3 PIECES OF PROCEEDINGS PRODUCED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AN INTENSIVE TRIAL BY DONATIEN-ALPHONSE-FRANÇOISE DE SADE AND BY HIS UNCLE THE ABBE DE SADE as lords of Saumane, to the consuls and the community of Carpentras before the Chamber of Estates of the Comtat-Venaissin, located in Carpentras. 1768 (about 2 pp. in all; one piece incomplete from the beginning). - 5 LETTERS FROM MEMBERS OF THE DE SADE FAMILY: 2 autographed letters signed by Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade's son, Louis-Marie, mentioning financial matters of interest to him and his father ("You can probably finally get something for my father... which will please him all the more as he is always in need of money...", 1798, "... My father has finally obtained the supervision...", n.d.); 2 autograph letters signed by other members of the de Sade family (1806 and n.d.). - Autograph letter signed "Jean" to the notary Jean-Antoine Fage in Apt (1806) explaining to him his steps to find the Marquis de Sade in order to give him a summons to appear: "... I had to go to St-Ouin where I was told that, FOR FOUR YEARS MR DE SADE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY..., HE LIVED AS IF IN HIDDEN WITH MAD[AM]E DU QUUINET [Marie-Constance Quesnet, mistress of the Marquis de Sade]...". - A letter evoking historiographic research in Sade's papers (Elzéar Prin, 1864?).
