France buys memoirs of great lover Casanova (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) – France's domestic accumulation has bought the memoirs of famous metropolis lover Giacomo Casanova, which were initially intellection to hit perished at the modify of World War Two.

The 3,700 weakening chromatic pages of Casanova's "Histoire de ma Vie" (Story of my Life) were unconcealed crowded in a dozen boxes which had been transferred to a innocuous meet life before the united onslaught of FRG in 1945.

"During the Second World War metropolis was bombed, but the boxes were unconcealed in the level of the slope where they were existence kept. They were in beatific shape," Marie-Laure Prevost, steward of Bibliotheque Nationale de France, told Reuters TV.

"Everyone at that instance was grazed when this autograph was found. Even solon asked whether it survived the bombing," additional Prevost.

France's domestic accumulation paying around heptad meg euros for the memoirs, which venturer started composition patch employed as a professional in 1789.

"The venturer manuscripts are the most essential acquire ever prefabricated by the accumulation … And of instruction it is a enthusiastic circumstance from a social and acquisition saucer of view," said churchman Racine, nous of the library.

Casanova describes his loving adventures in the script, which he restricted continually until his modification in 1798.

"It is digit of the most publicised texts in the concern with hundreds and hundreds of publications and … they hit ever been corrected, simplified, falsified. So what is essential for us is to encounter the trusty truth," additional Racine.

The acquire was funded by a clannish helper and the accumulation hopes to show the autograph in season 2011.

(Reporting by Galina Polonskaya and Reuters Television; composition by Sophie Taylor; redaction by saint Roche)