Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 Mercure de France in which he made a plea for the novel as a portrait … 469) 5 . Laclos, Œuvres complètes, Laurent Versini (ed.) (Paris: nrf-Gallimard, 1979), p. 448-449. Laclos invited Miss Burney to continue her condemnation of corrupt morals but to use ridicule as a weapon to expose those who undermined …
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