It only became known to the public after a German psychologist, Iwan Bloch, bought it and authorized its first publication in 1904.
Despite this, the book went unpublished for over a century and was banned in Britain until the 1950s.
Measuring 12 meters long, the manuscript itself is something unusual, consisting of 33 sheets stuck together in a roll.
fully provided by Emmanuel Boussard, former investment banker and co-founder of the Boussard & Gavaudan investment fund, the ministry said.
It will be part of the collection of the Arsenal library in Paris, a branch of the National Library of France of the BNF.
French courts seized 130,000 historical documents that Aristophil phone number library bought for its investors in 2015 after police denounced the company as a huge “pyramid scheme”.
Aristophil claimed to have amassed the largest private collection of French literary and historical documents in the world.
A libertine persecuted by the Ancien Régime and after the French Revolution, the Marquis, by his full name Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814), spent a good part of his life behind bars.
His contribution to literature was not truly recognized until the 20th century, when the scandal of his writing subsided in favor of an understanding of his ideas beyond the term “sadism†that bears his name.