Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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October 18, 1741 in Amiens, France

died

September 05, 1803

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Literature & Fiction

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Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals, with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangereuses . It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, which explo...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 7,658 ratings · 331 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 7,763 ratings — published 1782 — 163 editions	My rating:
	De L'éducation Des Femmes 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Les liaisons dangereuses: lettres recueillies dans une société et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1782	My rating:
	Lettres inédites 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses Ou Lettres Recueillies Dans Une Socit, & Publies Pour L'Instruction de Quelques Autres. Par M. C..... de L..... ... Volume 1 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	L'Amitie Dangereuse, Part 1: Ou Celimaure Et Amelie, Histoire Veritable (1786) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses V2: Ou, Lettres Recueilles Dans Une Societe, Et Publiees Pour L'Instruction de Quelques Autres (1784) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses Ou Lettres, Part 4: Recueilles Dans Une Societe, Et Publiees Pour L'Instruction de Quelques Autres (1782) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Choderlos de Laclos : Oeuvres complètes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (original author) 4.18 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

tags: dangerous-liaisons , fatal , heart , marquise-de-merteuil , revenge

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“Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

tags: romantic

24 people liked it

“A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

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