Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 the Duc’s faux pas to his secretary . 3 When Laclos was arrested twice during the Terror, he … 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 of ‘private morals’ …
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