A more concrete sign of de Sade's new respectability was the Orsay Museum in Paris in 2014 paying $7 million for the original manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom, written by de Sade while imprisoned for debauchery in the Bastille, and described by Napoleon (a frustrated writer) as "the most abominable book ever conceived." http://www.chloethurlow.com/2015/01/de-sade/