Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… that the morals are appealing and pure. Finally, we think that this Novel must be included among the best works of its kind, excepting however Clarisse , the most genius of all Novels; Tom Jones , the best-made Novel; and La Nouvelle … of Lovelace, the prototype libertine seducer, to the French spirit of finesse . 8 Laclos went a step further by making libertinism no longer an individual characteristic that was openly condemned by everything in the novel but the … he was sent to Milan as a brigadier general by the First Consul, Laclos mentally elaborated a novel that was to form a kind of diptych with Les Liaisons dangereuses : The rationale for the work is to popularise this truth that there is no …
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