Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… to it. His eclectic body of work paints the picture of a reformer, an educationalist in the Rousseauian tradition, a spare-time literary critic and an author of courtly poems, inspired by his visits to the salons. This work was all … him from January 1789 to May 1792. In the 18th century, the lodge was ‘an incubation chamber for forms, networks and spaces of sociability’ 2 where protection systems were formed, and freemasonry was a widespread custom among the … during the French Revolution, and the Palais-Royal became not just his headquarters but also a leading social space. Freemasons with reformist ideas inspired by the Revolution would use the Palais-Royal as their meeting place. It …
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