Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 eclipsed, however, by his epistolary novel, which ensured his name would be preserved for posterity as the author of a book that just happened to be a masterstroke. Described by Baudelaire as a ‘terrifying book of sociability’ , …
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