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Reading The Curse of the Marquis de Sade, with the Marquis, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, felt like a twisty waterslide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild.Adam McKay, Academy Awardwinning filmmaker
Described as both one of the most important novels ever written and the gospel of evil, 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word sadism, which came to mean receiving pleasure from pain. Despite all his crimes, Sade considered this work to be his greatest transgression.
The original manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom, a tiny scroll penned in the bowels of the Bastille in Paris, would embark on a centuries-spanning odyssey across Europe, passing from nineteenth-century banned book collectors to pioneering sex researchers to avant-garde artists before being hidden away from Nazi book burnings. In 2014, the world heralded its return to France when the scroll was purchased for millions by Grard Lhritier, the self-made son of a plumber who had used his savvy business skills to upend Frances renowned rare-book market. But the sale opened the door to vendettas by the government, feuds among antiquarian booksellers, manuscript sales derailed by sabotage, a record-breaking lottery jackpot, and allegations of a decade-long billion-euro con, the specifics of which, if true, would make the scroll part of Frances largest-ever Ponzi scheme.
Told with gripping reporting and flush with deceit and scandal, The Curse of the Marquis de Sade weaves together the sweeping odyssey of 120 Days of Sodom and the spectacular rise and fall of Lhritier, once the king of manuscripts and now known to many as the Bernie Madoff of France. At its center is an urgent question for all those who cherish the written word: As the age of handwriting comes to an end, what do we owe the original texts left behind?
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Copyright 2023 by Joel Warner
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Crown and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Warner, Joel, author.
Title: The curse of the Marquis de Sade / Joel Warner.
Description: First edition. | New York: Crown, [2023] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022026391 (print) | LCCN 2022026392 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593135686 (hardcover; alk. paper) | ISBN 9780593135693 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lhritier, Grard. | Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. 120 journes de Sodome. | Manuscripts, FrenchCollectors and collectingCase studies. | Swindlers and swindlingFranceCase studies.
Classification: LCC HV6699.F8 W37 2023 (print) | LCC HV6699.F8 (ebook) | DDC 364.16/30944dc23/eng/20220728
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026391
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022026392
Ebook ISBN9780593135693
Map copyright 2022 by David Lindroth, Inc.
crownpublishing.com
Book design by Simon M. Sullivan, adapted for ebook
Cover design: Anna Kochman
Cover image: Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva
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In the end, Sade taunts his executioners;
He has passed beyond the waves of the black sea.
But in spite of you, oh infernal pedants,
Despite your cries, his honest works
Will go without you to the temple of memories.
Hes done enough to earn glory
And far too much to earn his rest.
The Marquis de Sade,
My Epitaph
Friend Reader (as they said in the prefaces of old), if you know how to appreciate good old books, and amusing characters, do me the favor to accompany me.
Alfred Bonnardot ,
The Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile: A Satirical Tale
Donatien Alphonse Franois, the Marquis de Sade: An eighteenth-century French aristocrat who produced numerous libertine writings, including 120 Days of Sodom
Louis Marais: A police inspector who tracked Pariss prerevolutionary sex market
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Franois, the Comte de Sade: An aristocratic French diplomat and Sades father
Marie lonore de Maill de Carman: A French noblewoman and Sades mother
Jacques Franois Paul Aldonse, the Abb de Sade: A Provenal intellectual and Sades uncle
Rene-Plagie de Montreuil: Sades wife
Marie-Madeleine de Montreuil: Sades powerful mother-in-law, known as the Prsidente
Anne-Prospre de Launay: Sades sister-in-law
Gaspar Franois Xavier Gaufridy: Sades lawyer and notary
Marie-Constance Quesnet: An actress and single mother who became Sades companion after the French Revolution
Franois Simonet de Coulmier: Director of the Charenton mental asylum outside Paris in the early nineteenth century
Louis-Marie, Donatien-Claude-Armand, and Madeleine-Laure de Sade: Sades three children
Gilbert Lely: A Surrealist poet and Sade biographer
Xavier de Sade: A mid-twentieth-century aristocrat and Sades great-great-great-grandson
Thibault de Sade: A government adviser and Sades great-great-great-great-grandson
Arnoux: A French citizen from the Provenal town of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume who found 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille
Hlion de Villeneuve, the Marquis de Villeneuve-Trans: A nineteenth-century Provenal aristocrat who collected erotic literature
Jules-Adolphe Chauvet: A French erotica illustrator
Frederick Hankey: A notorious erotica collector who smuggled obscene books from France to Victorian England
Henry Spencer Ashbee: A Victorian bibliophile who amassed one of the worlds largest collections of erotica and authored a three-volume bibliography of erotic literature
Iwan Bloch: An early-twentieth-century German sexologist
Magnus Hirschfeld: A colleague of Blochs who founded Berlins Institute for Sexual Science
Marie-Laure de Noailles, the Vicomtesse de Noailles: An influential Parisian arts patron
Charles de Noailles, the Vicomte de Noailles: Marie-Laures husband
Maurice Heine: A French writer and Sade devotee
Andr Breton: Leader of the Surrealists
Nathalie de Noailles: Daughter of Marie-Laure de Noailles
Jean Grouet: A radical French publisher
Grard Nordmann: A Swiss billionaire and erotica collector
Carlo Perrone: Grandson of Marie-Laure de Noailles and Italian media baron
Jean-Jacques Pauvert: A young French publisher who openly published Sades works in the 1940s, challenging the countrys longtime ban
Martin Bodmer: The heir to a Swiss industrial fortune, known as the king of bibliophiles
Florence Darbre: A Swiss paper and papyrus conservation expert
Grard Lhritier: Founder of Aristophil
Jean-Claude Le Coustumer: A major investor in Aristophil
Kenneth Rendell: A leading U.S. letter and manuscript dealer
Frdric Castaing: A prominent Parisian manuscript dealer and onetime president of Frances association of rare-book sellers
Jean-Claude Vrain: One of Frances biggest rare-book dealers and Castaings archnemesis
Alain Nicolas: A major Paris manuscript dealer
Bruno Racine: Onetime president of the Bibliothque Nationale de France
Jrme Dupuis: An investigative reporter at the French newsmagazine LExpress who covered the book industry
Claude Aguttes: Founder of the French auction company Aguttes
Emmanuel Boussard: A wealthy French investment banker
OCTOBER 22, 1785
As the setting sun slipped below the tiled roofs of late-eighteenth-century Paris, a solitary convict leaned over his desk in the Liberty Tower of the Bastille and began to write:
The extensive wars that Louis XIV had to wage throughout the course of his reign, while exhausting the states finances and the peoples resources, nevertheless uncovered the secret to enriching an enormous number of those leeches always lying in wait for the public calamities they provoke rather than quell in order to profit from them all the more. It was towards the end of this reignthat four among them conceived the unique feat of debauchery we are about to describe.
The mans fine-tipped quill moved quickly across the narrow sheet of paper, filling the page with delicate, almost microscopically small letters, the lines of brown ink crammed so close together to save space that the descenders of his js, ps, and ys stabbed like lancets into the line below. As he wrote, the light from his shaded candles flickered about the whitewashed stone walls of his cramped octagonal cell, the air rank from the waste that poured from the sewer pipe under his window into the moat below. Past his cell door, the prison echoed with the creaks of doors, clattering keys, and bolts slamming into place, the only signs that he wasnt completely alone.
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