Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… II, Duc d’Orléans, who was to appoint him as his private secretary (for many, Laclos was the éminence grise), led him to England on a diplomatic mission. Finding that his military career did not fulfil his ambitions for glory, he took up … the Palais-Royal. He also played a particularly active role in the Club des Jacobins (which he joined on his return from England in October 1790) as founder and editor of the Journal des Amis de la Constitution . Following the Champs-de-Mars … opportunity of a Franco-British political alliance, which was not to come to fruition until the following century. In England, Laclos developed the idea of a constitutional monarchy to replace French absolutism. 4 . Mémoires du comte …
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