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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: 4.05 · 59,965 ratings · 3,189 reviews · 191 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 58,642 ratings — published 1782 — 1274 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 — 293 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 — 111 ratings — published 1783 — 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
	Las Amistades Peligrosas, 1: Cartas Recogidas En Una Sociedad y Publicadas Para La Instruccion de Algunas Obras... 4.02 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1786 — 68 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
	Œuvres complètes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gallimard (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 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
	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
	Les Liaisons dangeureuses (édition avec notes): précédées de l'éducation des femmes (French Edition) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	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) it was amazing 5.00 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
	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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“Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

tags: desire, in-love, love

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Polls

January 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 544 pages, 1819

54 votes, 23.5%

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 170 pages, 1895

45 votes, 19.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages, 1842

38 votes, 16.5%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

26 votes, 11.3%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 448 pages, 1782

24 votes, 10.4%

Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages, 1833

15 votes, 6.5%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages, 1830

13 votes, 5.7%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages, 1859

9 votes, 3.9%

Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier, 363 pages, 1835

6 votes, 2.6%

230 total votes

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