Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph Marquis dé Sade (1702-1767), ALS

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This item is a wonderful original letter undated where Jean-Baptiste-François-Joseph Marquis dé Sade (1702-1767),(father of the famed Marquis de Sade of the same name) has written Mr. Gofredi the Royal Notary regarding a fee charged for some family business......signed Sade. Letter is 5x7, folds, else in overall fine shape. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-François de Sade (* 1702 in Avignon , �� 24 January 1767 in Montreuil ) was a French diplomat, officer, libertine , writer and nobleman of the family Sade . In 1745 he spent 10 months in prison on charges related to his tenure as ambassador to the Electoral Cologne court in Bonn. Because of this affair, and because he was not discreet enough with Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle , Duchesse de Châteauroux , an influential mistress of Louis XV.,he gave the Royal Court a bad reputation. In 1760 he was field marshal of the royal army. Overall Sade has many affairs, mainly with women, but was rumored to have had liasons with male companions of the court. In 1760, he took took his wife to live in a monastery. He wrote plays, prose, philosophical essays and letters. Of the 20 works so far none has been published. During his lifetime he prevented this, since writing while a member of nobility was unusual and would have ruined his career as a diplomat. .Please view the other historical and Civil War related read more

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