Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… of sociable exchange. People > Art and Literature People > Association Mots-clés Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise … La Candeur lodge that brought him into contact with the Duc d’Orléans. The Duc was grand master of the Grand Orient de France , and Laclos served him from January 1789 to May 1792. In the 18th century, the lodge was ‘an incubation chamber … Tilly pour servir à l’histoire des mœurs de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Christian Melchior-Bonnet (ed.) (Paris: Mercure de France, 1965), p. 174-178. Laclos’s interest in English culture was primarily literary. In 1784, two years after the …
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