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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Born

in Amiens, France

October 18, 1741

Died

September 05, 1803

Genre

Fiction

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Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) 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, ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 62,735 ratings · 3,543 reviews · 225 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 61,348 ratings — published 1782 — 1236 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Read by the Cast of the Stage Play by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Source Material), Dominic West (Narrator), Janet McTeer (Narrator) 3.65 avg rating — 303 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De l'éducation des femmes 3.18 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1783 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las Amistades Peligrosas, 1: Cartas Recogidas En Una Sociedad y Publicadas Para La Instruccion de Algunas Obras... 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1786 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las Amistades Peligrosas, 2: Coleccion De Cartas Recopiladas En Una Sociedad... really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1959 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Liaisons - Illustrated and Translated into Modern Language: An Easy-To-Read Classic Novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mirella Patzer (editor), Moore Thomas (translator) 4.31 avg rating — 8 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Œuvres complètes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gallimard (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Liaisons dangeureuses (édition avec notes): précédées de l'éducation des femmes (French Edition) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MALEDETTE! 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Profil - Choderlos de Laclos : Les Liaisons dangereuses: Analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Jean-Luc Faivre, Georges Décote (Series Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (?)

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

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“Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

tags: evil, good, humanity, virtue

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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.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

tags: romantic

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December 2014 Old School Classic Poll

Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 Old School Classic Group Read?

104, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 56 pages

37 votes, 24.7%

1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages

33 votes, 22.0%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages

21 votes, 14.0%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

19 votes, 12.7%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1390, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 504 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1848, La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, 256 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1787, Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 432 pages

6 votes, 4.0%

1782, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 448 pages

5 votes, 3.3%

1841, The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper, 576 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

150 total votes

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