Jean Grouet was a French publisher alleged to have stolen the manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.[1]
A friend of Françoise Sagan, Grouet founded Éditions Rupture and achieved success in 1977 with the publication of Rafaël Pividal's Pays Sages.[2]
His success was short-lived and he borrowed the manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom from its rightful owner, Natalie de Noailles -- daughter of Viscount Charles de Noailles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, a direct descendant of Sade.[1] In 1982 Grouet smuggled the manuscript to Switzerland and sold it to Gérard Nordmann, a Swiss collector of erotica.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b Elaine Sciolino, "It’s a Sadistic Story, and France Wants It" The New York Times, January 21, 2013
- ^ Patrick Besson, "Chronique de Patrick Besson" PressReader, August 27, 2020
- ^ Clive Aslet, "Erotic sale of the century" The Telegraph, April 20, 2006
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