As an inmate of the Asylum of Charenton
Autograph document signed.
199 x 74 mm. 5 lines.
€ 3,500.00
Receipt for the allowance that de Sade received from his second-born son Claude-Armand during his imprisonment in the Charenton asylum: "Je soussigné reconnais avoir reçu de Monsieur Armand de Sade mon fils la somme de deux cent cinquante-deux francs savoir celle de cent cinquante-six pour le mois de Septembre et celle de quatre-vingt-seize pour un objet particulier".
In 1801, Napoleon personally ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of "Justine" and "Juliette" after he had received a copy of the novel. De Sade was arrested at his publisher's office and imprisoned without trial. After two years of imprisonment in Sainte-Pélagie and in the Bicêtre Asylum, his family managed to have him declared insane and placed in the Charenton asylum with favourable treatment. There he would spend the rest of his life in captivity but with some personal freedom and comfort.
After the death of his eldest son Louis-Marie in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, Claude-Armand (1769-1847) became the head of the family. A devout catholic, Claude-Armand was eager to eradicate the memory of his scandalous father and destroyed all remaining manuscripts upon his death in 1812.
Minimally stained and creased.
