Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de SADE. L.A.S., Charenton June 20, 1808, to avoué Trécourt, Paris; 3pages in-4, addressed. About his companion Mme Quesnet. Complains of M. Martin's subterfuge and "pretty persiflage". Mme Quesnet is too ill to look for her papers: "If M Martin doubts this, let him take the trouble to come to Charenton [...] this country is not foreign to him, and he will learn the truth there". Sade undertakes that Martin will be paid on July 4: "Let Mr. Martin, who is said to be so rich, not come and bother for a fortnight a poor patient who has been in bed for twenty-two days and who since then has neither eaten nor spoken four words, except those of the state of transport in which she has been three times"...
Estimate
€700 - €800
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€910
Buyer's premium
30%
Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de SADE. L.A.S., Charenton June 20, 1808, to avoué Trécourt, Paris; 3pages in-4, addressed.
About his companion Mme Quesnet.
Complains of M. Martin's subterfuge and "pretty persiflage". Mme Quesnet is too ill to look for her papers: "If M Martin doubts this, let him take the trouble to come to Charenton [...] this country is not foreign to him, and he will learn the truth there". Sade undertakes that Martin will be paid on July 4: "Let Mr. Martin, who is said to be so rich, not come and bother for a fortnight a poor patient who has been in bed for twenty-two days and who since then has neither eaten nor spoken four words, except those of the state of transport in which she has been three times"...
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