Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… a leading social space. Freemasons with reformist ideas inspired by the Revolution would use the Palais-Royal as their meeting place. It is also where Laclos met the Duc’s English mistress, Grace Elliott, whose memoirs attributed most of … tradition of French epistolary art as a counterpart to the art of conversation, Les liaisons dangereuses was the perfect meeting of subject and form . 9 The epistolary novel no longer aspired to provide authenticity and instruction to a genre …
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