Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… founder and editor of the Journal des Amis de la Constitution . Following the Champs-de-Mars massacre, however, he withdrew his membership from the club without resigning. 2 . Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Franc-maçonnerie et sociabilité. Les … Laclos developed the idea of a constitutional monarchy to replace French absolutism. 4 . Mémoires du comte Alexandre de Tilly pour servir à l’histoire des mœurs de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Christian Melchior-Bonnet (ed.) (Paris: … In 1784, two years after the succès de scandale of Les liaisons dangereuses , he published a review of Frances Fanny 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 …
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