Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE... - Lot 183 - Ader

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Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE... - Lot 183 - Ader
Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE (1740-1814). L.A., [Vincennes] February 11, 1778, to his wife; 2 pages in-8 filled with a very tight handwriting. Beautiful letter to his wife from his prison in the dungeon of Vincennes. "Finally, after a year of the hardest and most awful captivity in which I have received only persiflage instead of consolation, only harshness instead of softening, will I be allowed to ask for a pardon and will I be able to flatter myself that I will get it? You must not doubt, my dear friend, the terrible impression this new letter you are preparing will make on me, and although all the expressions in your letters are researched with a unique art to make me glimpse the most extreme languor, and for a year they have not varied to the point where there is neither more hope nor more consolation in the first than in the last. In spite of all this, I say, the cruel ignorance in which you are pleased to leave me on the only thing that interests me and on the only thing I would like to know for my rest and tranquility, which you are disturbing very cruelly. [...] Everything that destroys hope is so cruel, they are such sharp daggers that pity must urge you to soften the blow when you can. Therefore, my dear friend, I beg you to obtain permission to bring me all the supplies you have requested. This is the greatest service she can render him, "apart from freeing me completely, which as you well know would be much more pleasant for me, and in truth it would be justice, for I have been made to suffer enough. [...] Think that I have been suffering for a long time and that it seems to me that such cruel and long-lasting pains could finally obtain for me a little compassion. I have never been more than a year without seeing you, you know that, and I will consider it a bad omen if you do not do everything you saw me do in the same case, so as not to deceive our wish, because you know that I only came back from Italy for that (and more to God than I ever did). He managed to hold out until the first Sunday of Lent: "That would seem to me to be a time to get what one asks for. [I have things of the last consequence to tell you which will perhaps throw some light on the alleged grievances which are imputed to me and for which I am punished so severely and so out of place since they do not want to hear me. Because I ask for all grace to be questioned "...In postscript, he adds " Point de groseille, je ne les aime d'aucune façon " and he gives the dimensions of the boxes he asks for.
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