France buys Casanova's memoirs
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February 21, 2010, Sunday
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FRANCE'S national library has bought the memoirs of celebrated Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova that were initially thought to have perished at the end of World War II.
The 3,700 fading yellow pages of Casanova's "Histoire de Ma Vie" ("Story of My Life") were discovered in a dozen boxes which had been transferred to a safe just days before the allied bombing of Germany in 1945.
"Leipzig was bombed but the boxes were discovered in the basement of the bank where they were being kept. They were in good shape," said Marie-Laure Prevost, curator of Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
"Everyone at that time was touched when this manuscript was found. Even Churchill asked whether it survived the bombing," added Prevost. France's national library paid around 7 million euros (US$9.5 million) for the memoirs, which Casanova started in 1789.
"The Casanova manuscripts are the most important purchase ever made by the library," said director Bruno Racine.
The 3,700 fading yellow pages of Casanova's "Histoire de Ma Vie" ("Story of My Life") were discovered in a dozen boxes which had been transferred to a safe just days before the allied bombing of Germany in 1945.
"Leipzig was bombed but the boxes were discovered in the basement of the bank where they were being kept. They were in good shape," said Marie-Laure Prevost, curator of Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
"Everyone at that time was touched when this manuscript was found. Even Churchill asked whether it survived the bombing," added Prevost. France's national library paid around 7 million euros (US$9.5 million) for the memoirs, which Casanova started in 1789.
"The Casanova manuscripts are the most important purchase ever made by the library," said director Bruno Racine.
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