Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… 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 ‘private morals’ that was charged with ‘[o]bserving, feeling and portraying’ in order to provide insight into … and father, which counterbalanced his alter ego Valmont’s image as the dark conspirator, nevertheless present the portrait of a moralist who believes the new order can only come from a society that has been transformed through freedom, …
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