Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 François … otherwise indicated, all quotations from French sources have been translated into English. Laclos was initiated into Freemasonry in 1765 by L’Union , his Toul-Artillerie unit’s military lodge. He went on to become a member of the Henri IV … 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 military. The Duc took the name Philippe-Égalité during the French …
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