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SADE Donatien-Alphonse, marquis de (1740-1814)
L.A.S. addressed to GAUFRIDY S.l., [14 June 1796?]
2 ½ pages in-8 in ink on paper (slight lack of paper).
L.A.S. addressed to his lawyer Gaufridy in Apt about the future of the latter's son.
"Today, the fourteenth of June, is the second time, my dear and kind lawyer, that I have the pleasure of dining with your charming son| where I have never known myself as a man, or certainly I affirm to you that this one will make his way intelligence penetration finesse, perfect understanding of business, bearing, pleasant figure, pretty way of expressing himself he has everything and I am quite certain that you will not repent of having consented to his voiyage from Paris. It was only yesterday that he brought me your letter, he had forgotten it the first time, and I hasten to answer it.
Alas! My dear old friend, I would like to be able to direct him in the thorny career of the Parisian world in which he is about to embark| my painful situation prevents me from doing so, and I can only offer him wishes and advice at this moment, but I assure you that he has all that is necessary to do without a guide, and when I return to the world I hope that it will be he who will serve me. At his first meeting I had almost engaged him to come every Sunday to dine with us. Our place is beautiful, our food quite good, and our garden superb| comedy, ball, or concert, quite commonly on these days, All this was becoming a reason for dissipation for him, but yesterday he took away this pleasant hope by warning me that he was going to a solicitor tomorrow, who would only allow him Sundays for himself, and would deprive him of giving us all of them, since he would have to devote some of them to the duties he must necessarily perform for the people for whom he has recommendations, and I had to sacrifice my pleasure and my enjoyment to this powerful reason [....] [...] Not having had the happiness of raising my children as you have, my dear lawyer, I cannot claim to be loved by both of them, and their daily behaviour towards me proves to me that I would be in great error if I blinded myself to their account [...] [...] Finally, he swallows the chalice to the dregs. There is a term where all our evils end| the happy man dreads it, the unfortunate one desires it, that is my fate. May I always be a little loved by you and yours, this hope will perhaps make me consider the end with less bitterness, the assurances that you will want to give me will be in all times one of the sweetest consolation of the life of one who embraces you with all his heart and who asks you to present his sincere homage to all your loving family [...]". Marie Constance Quesnet, Sade's companion at the time, ends the letter by signing it: "Your son is a very pretty horseman, full of spirit and very amiable. I beg you to recommend him to come and see us more often, that is to say every Sunday. I kiss you with all my heart".
Exceptional letter.
L.A.S. addressed to GAUFRIDY S.l., [14 June 1796?]
2 ½ pages in-8 in ink on paper (slight lack of paper).
L.A.S. addressed to his lawyer Gaufridy in Apt about the future of the latter's son.
"Today, the fourteenth of June, is the second time, my dear and kind lawyer, that I have the pleasure of dining with your charming son| where I have never known myself as a man, or certainly I affirm to you that this one will make his way intelligence penetration finesse, perfect understanding of business, bearing, pleasant figure, pretty way of expressing himself he has everything and I am quite certain that you will not repent of having consented to his voiyage from Paris. It was only yesterday that he brought me your letter, he had forgotten it the first time, and I hasten to answer it.
Alas! My dear old friend, I would like to be able to direct him in the thorny career of the Parisian world in which he is about to embark| my painful situation prevents me from doing so, and I can only offer him wishes and advice at this moment, but I assure you that he has all that is necessary to do without a guide, and when I return to the world I hope that it will be he who will serve me. At his first meeting I had almost engaged him to come every Sunday to dine with us. Our place is beautiful, our food quite good, and our garden superb| comedy, ball, or concert, quite commonly on these days, All this was becoming a reason for dissipation for him, but yesterday he took away this pleasant hope by warning me that he was going to a solicitor tomorrow, who would only allow him Sundays for himself, and would deprive him of giving us all of them, since he would have to devote some of them to the duties he must necessarily perform for the people for whom he has recommendations, and I had to sacrifice my pleasure and my enjoyment to this powerful reason [....] [...] Not having had the happiness of raising my children as you have, my dear lawyer, I cannot claim to be loved by both of them, and their daily behaviour towards me proves to me that I would be in great error if I blinded myself to their account [...] [...] Finally, he swallows the chalice to the dregs. There is a term where all our evils end| the happy man dreads it, the unfortunate one desires it, that is my fate. May I always be a little loved by you and yours, this hope will perhaps make me consider the end with less bitterness, the assurances that you will want to give me will be in all times one of the sweetest consolation of the life of one who embraces you with all his heart and who asks you to present his sincere homage to all your loving family [...]". Marie Constance Quesnet, Sade's companion at the time, ends the letter by signing it: "Your son is a very pretty horseman, full of spirit and very amiable. I beg you to recommend him to come and see us more often, that is to say every Sunday. I kiss you with all my heart".
Exceptional letter.