Null Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de SADE. L.A.S., [Charenton] December 2…

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Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de SADE. L.A.S., [Charenton] December 22, 1810, to François Ripert in Mazan; 3pages in-4, address (framed). He complains of not having any news from him, and has "an urgent need for four hundred livres, I beg you to do everything humanely you can to procure them for me, make this need known in Mazan, so that those who might desire something from me for the price of this service, address you with confidence"... Why doesn't Ripert, who wants to increase one of his possessions, approach Sade to buy a piece of land. "Isn't there at last something in my land that I can cede or sell, some woods, some land, some lease renewal?"...

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Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de SADE. L.A.S., [Charenton] December 22, 1810, to François Ripert in Mazan; 3pages in-4, address (framed). He complains of not having any news from him, and has "an urgent need for four hundred livres, I beg you to do everything humanely you can to procure them for me, make this need known in Mazan, so that those who might desire something from me for the price of this service, address you with confidence"... Why doesn't Ripert, who wants to increase one of his possessions, approach Sade to buy a piece of land. "Isn't there at last something in my land that I can cede or sell, some woods, some land, some lease renewal?"...

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Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

[CURIOSA] Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de SADE - Ernestine Au Cabinet du Livre à Paris, 1926 - Very fine edition superbly illustrated with 10 beautiful etchings by Sylvain Sauvage. Beautiful posterior binding signed Th, Roux in midnight blue ¾ band chagrin, lovely ornamental paper with floral motifs decorating the boards, Total edition of 582 copies, this one of the rare 16 numbered copies on paper from the Imperial Manufactures of Japan containing a state of the plates and a refused plate, before the letter, the definitive suite in black and a suite of engravings and a refused engraving printed in color à la poupée. This is one of the most "moderate" of Sade's short stories, corresponding perfectly to Sylvain Sauvage's illustration work. A superb copy. Provenance: Ex-Libris de A, Chailan - Vercelli (monogram Bfy)

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

SADE MARQUIS DE: (1740-1814)

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

[D.A.F. marquis de SADE]. Jacques-François, abbé de SADE (1705-1777) commendatory abbot of Ébreuil abbey, literary scholar, uncle of the marquis. 5 L.A., 1734-1750, to his brother the comte de Sade, with autograph annotations by the marquis de Sade; 11pages in-4 or in-8, one address. Interesting correspondence from the abbé de Sade to his brother.Toulouse July 19, 1734. Autograph note by the marquis at the head: "de l'abé de Sade son frere pour lors grand vicaire de l'archeveque de Toulouse". News of the time, mentioning Prince Eugène in Philippsbourg, Voltaire, the Marquis de Surgères... [Early 1736?] Autograph note from the Marquis at the head: "de l'abé de Sade mon oncle, a son frere". He mentions the end of the war, the death of Mme de La Rochefoucauld, M. de Mirepoix who is to be tutor to the Dauphin... Ébreuil 1750. - January 26. On Abbé Amblet (who is to be the tutor of the Marquis, then aged ten): "Either I am well mistaken or you have made a find for your son. In the meantime, I'm very happy to have him with me, and he's apprenticing as a tutor to a lady friend of mine, to whom he's learning Italian; it seems to me that he's doing very well".... - October 10, on his situation at Ébreuil Abbey: "I'm staying there because, on the whole, I'm happy there and I wouldn't be any better off anywhere else. All I need is a more select society, which I feel is sufficiently compensated for by the well-being, freedom, independence and idleness that I value so highly"... - October 20, on his financial situation.Enclosed: - L.S. from the archbishop of Albi, Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, to the abbé, December 24, 1758, concerning the allocation of a house in Avignon; - a letter written from Avignon on December 3, 1778 to the president of Montreuil, concerning the abbé's inheritance in favor of his nephew, and the businessman Gaufridy.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

[D.A.F. marquis de SADE]. Jacques NECKER (1732-1804) Controller General of Finances. L.S., Paris May 20, 1778, to the Présidente de Montreuil; half-page fol. To the mother-in-law of the Marquis de Sade, then incarcerated at Vincennes.Necker regrets not being able to oblige her in the arrangement proposed by the Comte de Sainte-Foy (1721-1795, military and literary figure, grandson of Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan): "two months ago he received at the Royal Treasury the payment of the indemnity he offers today to delegate to you to pay the sum he owes you"... Attached are 2 handwritten procedural documents between the Marquis de Sade's formidable mother-in-law, Marie-Madeleine Masson, widow of Claude-René Cordier (de) Montreuil, known during his lifetime as the "President of Montreuil" [deceased January 15, 1795], on the one hand, and her brother-in-law Marie-Joseph Cordier de Montreuil on the other, concerning the President's estate. These copies of a judgment of 22 germinal III (April 11, 1795) are dated 8 messidor VIII (June 27, 1800); the second bears on the back the address of the marquis's youngest son: "M. Armand de Sade, rue Cassette n°31".

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