Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… - Photo Gérard Blot, INV 27625, Recto, XVIIIe siècle. Abstract Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He was a Freemason and regular visitor to the clubs and salons of the revolutionary period. Finding his … on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than its English model, it called into question a whole sociability that had descended into libertinism. The work simultaneously marked the pinnacle and dissolution of the … to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented the salons of the garrison towns where he was posted as an artilleryman and was a member of …
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