Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… > Art and Literature People > Association Keywords Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos … recueillies dans une société, et publiées pour l’instruction de quelques autres ( Dangerous Connections: A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society ), which used … La Nouvelle Héloïse ( Julie, or the New Heloise )) – ‘I have observed the Manners of the Times, and have wrote these Letters’ 11 – and the juxtaposition of the publisher’s notice and the preface set an edifying tone, but Laclos’s …
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