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MONNAIE DE PARIS.Livre Rare Book

"Marquis Donatien de Sade".

Donatien Alphonse Francois de SADEBiblio.com

Bronze Cast of the Marquis de Sade's Skull

201291763s. l.: S. n. 2012. Fine. S. n. s. l. 2012 20 x 13.50 cm autre Bronze cast of the Marquis de Sades skull by the master founder Avangini. One of a unique numbered edition of 99 bearing a reproduction of Sades signature this one No. 30. Also included is a certificate of authenticity signed by the Comtesse de Sade with the familys wax seal. Provenance: family archives. On Friday 2nd December 1814 Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade died at the Charenton asylum at the age of 74. Despite his final wishes the Marquis had a religious burial in the cemetery at Charenton. In an ironic twist of fate Sade would not stay in the bosom of the Church for long even after death for a few years later his tomb was profaned in the name of science by the asylums doctor Dr. L. J. Ramon. Having studied the enigmatic Marquis skull he passed it on to his German colleague Johann Spurzheim a student of the famous Franz Joseph Gall the founder of phrenology very new and very popular at the time. Spurzheim made a cast today in the Anthropological Lab of the Musée de lHomme in Paris of the precious skull and exhibited the original during his European conferences. He then lost it apparently in Germany or America. What greater freedom could someone who had spent the best years of his life behind bars have hoped for The museum also preserves the notes from the very partial phrenological analysis of the Marquis de Sades cerebral structure carried out by Spurzheims assistant which was nothing less than a new posthumous trial culminating in another guilty verdict this time without appeal: Born from the most shameful passions and marked by feelings of opprobrium and ignominy a world-view so monstrous if it were not the brainchild of a lunatic would render its creator unworthy of being called a man and would blacken his reputation for good. We however prefer the more honest description provided by Dr Ramon in his Notes on M. de Sade: Sades skull nonetheless had not been in my possession many days before I examined it from the phrenological point of view something I was very taken with at the time as well as magnetism. What did this examination show me A well-developed crown Theosophy goodwill; marked projection behind and underneath the ears a conflict point similarly developed organs in the skull of du Guesclin; mid-sized cerebellum an elongated distance between one mastoid part of the temporal bone and another indicating excesses in physical love. In a word just as I was unable to discover in Sade as he walked along seriously and I would even say almost in a patrician way the author of Justine and Juliette my inspection of his head would have made me absolve him altogether of the charge of producing such works: his skull was in all respects comparable to that of a Church Father. A tangible testimony to the impenetrable secret of the Marquis and his intolerable freedom. This bronze skull the only replica of the occiput that so mysteriously disappeared seems to respond to the Shakespearean question with a sarcastic reformulation: To be free or not to be! S. n. unknown

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