Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… was ‘the masterpiece of novels’ (Laclos 440). Abbé Prévost’s 1751 translation of the novel had attempted to adapt the language and behaviour of Lovelace, the prototype libertine seducer, to the French spirit of finesse . 8 Laclos went a …
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