France Wants To Buy Manuscript Of Sade’s 120 Days Of Sodom

The director of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is “negotiating long and hard to buy Sade’s manuscript. … He has argued in front of the Commission of National Treasures to declare it provisionally a ‘national treasure’ that needs to be preserved in the library. And he is ready to pay more than $5 million to get it.”