Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE. 2L.A.S., [Paris an IV: June-July 1796], to citoyen Charles Gaufridy in Apt; 3 and 2pages in-4, the 1st with address. Needs money, and protests his revolutionary sentiments. Prairial 24 [June 12]. Sick, he complains about being sent 400 livres, when he needs 2000... "I am very angry that at a time when I am dying of hunger, your father has left without providing for my subsistence"... As for the furniture, "only what is good should be taken to Saumane, the rest should be sold and above all I should be sent the cookware I absolutely need here". He repeats that "there is no divine or human power that can make me do without my 800 a month [...] for the 10 or 12 years of life that I have left at the most, and that if I had to scrape the earth with my fingers to get them I would"... [27 messidor (July 15)]. Sade demands in vain "the exact and sacred sending of my 850 per month"; he is "without a sol [...] obliged to borrow or to put in wages to live [...] I beg you to believe citizen that my son dares to present himself everywhere, and everywhere with his head very high, that consequently the expression you use if he nose not come to Apt, is extremely deplaced"... The cadet is in Malta "with the permission of the government"... As for him, "I see that you know little about what concerns me by telling me that your father was blamed and arrested because he was in charge of the property of an aristocrat. Have the goodness to know that it was the aristocracy who had me arrested, not the patriots, that those who had me imprisoned under Roberspierre are the same ones who had me put in the Bastille, and that it was certainly impossible for what were then called the patriots to arrest citizen Sade, who had long presided over their assembly. - who went to the Jacobins, who eulogized Marat in the middle of Paris, and who made the famous petition to the Convention to overthrow everything. Oui Citoyen, cest l'aristocratie déguisée [...] qui mechamment bandaid les yeux sur mes enfans, du sort desquels elle etait maîtresse [...] voila ce qui m'a fait commettre des imprudences"...