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SADE DONATIEN-ALPHONSE-FRANÇOIS, MARQUIS DE (1740-1814)
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SADE DONATIEN-ALPHONSE-FRANÇOIS, MARQUIS DE (1740-1814)
L.A., [Vincennes dungeon] May 22, 1783, [to his eye doctors]| 2 pages in-4.
Letter from prison to his oculists, while suffering from the onset of blindness. [Sade was treated by the oculists Henri and Guillaume GRANDJEAN and Antoine DEMOURS fils]. "The prescribed powder was used for four days in a row, and the effects it produced, which we will describe, forced us to suspend the treatment until further explanation from the oculists. The situation making the administration of the said powder impossible by the operation of the breath, one has made up for it by throwing it oneself into the eye, it has produced a prodigious irritation, it has considerably inflamed all the small vessels of the white of the eye, and has made this part all red. With regard to the opacity which one hoped would be reduced by the use of this powder, far from bringing about its reduction or end, it has restored the squint of the eye, or the thickness of the gauze, to the same state it was in at the beginning, and following the great pain produced by the accident. He suspended the treatment and asked "Messieurs les oculistes" to come back and see him, or at least to answer his questions in the meantime: "Is the effect that one experiences natural? And in spite of what is unpleasant, should we expect relief by continuing? Or should we change the remedy? In the meantime, he stopped the treatment "with the exception of the injections of colire at the rate of two per day"... An autograph MANUSCRIT is attached, Noms employes dans cet ouvrage, [1812]| 2 pages small in-4 (small lack of paper at a lower corner without touching the text). On his novel Adélaïde de Brunswick. [This heroic novel, taken from a historical account of the eleventh century, written in 1812, was not published until 1964 by Gilbert Lely]. List of 18 names of the characters in the novel: "Frederic prince of Saxony / Adelaide de Brunswic his wife / Louis of Thuringia his cousin"... etc. On the back, Sade noted: "I began this work on the 1st of 7bre 1812 the draft was finished on the 4th of 8bre. I took eight days to correct the draft, which led to the 12th of February, and I began the net on the 13th of February 1812 and finished on the 21st of February 39 days of copying. [...] It is on the 4th of February that everything is absolutely finished, and that I pack these drafts.
L.A., [Vincennes dungeon] May 22, 1783, [to his eye doctors]| 2 pages in-4.
Letter from prison to his oculists, while suffering from the onset of blindness. [Sade was treated by the oculists Henri and Guillaume GRANDJEAN and Antoine DEMOURS fils]. "The prescribed powder was used for four days in a row, and the effects it produced, which we will describe, forced us to suspend the treatment until further explanation from the oculists. The situation making the administration of the said powder impossible by the operation of the breath, one has made up for it by throwing it oneself into the eye, it has produced a prodigious irritation, it has considerably inflamed all the small vessels of the white of the eye, and has made this part all red. With regard to the opacity which one hoped would be reduced by the use of this powder, far from bringing about its reduction or end, it has restored the squint of the eye, or the thickness of the gauze, to the same state it was in at the beginning, and following the great pain produced by the accident. He suspended the treatment and asked "Messieurs les oculistes" to come back and see him, or at least to answer his questions in the meantime: "Is the effect that one experiences natural? And in spite of what is unpleasant, should we expect relief by continuing? Or should we change the remedy? In the meantime, he stopped the treatment "with the exception of the injections of colire at the rate of two per day"... An autograph MANUSCRIT is attached, Noms employes dans cet ouvrage, [1812]| 2 pages small in-4 (small lack of paper at a lower corner without touching the text). On his novel Adélaïde de Brunswick. [This heroic novel, taken from a historical account of the eleventh century, written in 1812, was not published until 1964 by Gilbert Lely]. List of 18 names of the characters in the novel: "Frederic prince of Saxony / Adelaide de Brunswic his wife / Louis of Thuringia his cousin"... etc. On the back, Sade noted: "I began this work on the 1st of 7bre 1812 the draft was finished on the 4th of 8bre. I took eight days to correct the draft, which led to the 12th of February, and I began the net on the 13th of February 1812 and finished on the 21st of February 39 days of copying. [...] It is on the 4th of February that everything is absolutely finished, and that I pack these drafts.