Autograph letter signed « S. de Beauvoir » to her typewriter Madame Mandinaud
Gary, Indiana, 21 September 1951. One page 1-4
Simone de Beauvoir sends an article about Sade for Les Temps Modernes magazine
Autograph manuscript for her essay Must we burn Sade ?
N.p.n.d [1951], 7 pages in-4 on grid paper
“Sade’s eroticism is no longer just an individual attitude; it is also a challenge for society”
Autograph letter to his wife, Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil
[N.p], 1st avril, [Vincennes Prison], 1 p. 1/2 in-12°
« I suffer like a damned man »
Autograph letter signed “de Sade” to his aunt Gabrielle-Eléonore de Sade
N.p, 22nd April [1790], 3 pp. in-8vo
“My room was searched and I lost everything… precious works, the fruit of fifteen years’ work, I have saved nothing… and all this through the fault of those wretched rascals whom I hope God will one day avenge me”
Autograph manuscript signed « Sade » to his notary Charles Gaufridy
[Asile de Charenton], 6th Fructidor an 13 (24th August 1805) 4 pages in-8
“I reserve myself the right to dispose of 800 f at my death to the individual…”