Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… to advantage more than any other work, appears to be the tool that disintegrated the society that underpinned it, the ‘sentimental legacy of an entire society’ ’. 10 It testifies that sociability as France knew it in 1782 was corruptible …
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