Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 1965), p. 174-178. Laclos’s interest in English culture was primarily literary. In 1784, two years after the succès de scandale of Les liaisons dangereuses , he published a review of Frances Burney ’s Cecilia or Memoirs of an Heiress in the … era that stressed the importance of sociable exchange while remaining mindful of its perils. The novel’s succès de scandale, which was fuelled by indignation at the potential models represented by the two libertines at the plot’s centre …
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