Handwritten scroll of The 120 Days of Sodom bought by French manuscript dealer and museum owner for 7m
The original scroll on which the infamous Marquis de Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom, his novel on sexual depravity, paedophilia, cruelty and murder, has returned to France.
Sade's book was written in tiny writing on a narrow 12-metre-long strip of parchment in just 37 days while he was imprisoned in the Bastille and hidden in his cell. It was found when the jail was stormed during the French Revolution.
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