Choderlos de Laclos Pierre – Les Liaisons dangereuses : Promis à la vie militaire en tant que cadet d’une famille récemment anoblie, l’officier d’artillerie Pierre Choderlos de Laclos végète dans des garnisons de province où il participe cependant à la vie mondaine. Déçu dans ses ambitions militaires, il décide de frapper un grand coup littéraire. “Je résolus de faire un ouvrage qui sortît de la route ordinaire, qui fît du bruit et qui retentît encore sur la terre quand j’y aurais passé …”...

The novel is composed entirely of letters exchanged between the various characters, which provides an intimate and voyeuristic look into their thoughts, emotions, and machinations. The story revolves around the manipulative and cunning Marquise de Merteuil and the seductive Vicomte de Valmont, who engage in a game of seduction and manipulation, using their sexual conquests as a means to seek revenge and exert power over others.Throughout the novel, the characters engage in intricate plots ...

Set in France during the Ancien Régime, Dangerous Liasons is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and moral depravity where our rival protagonists use seduction as a weapon.The Marquise de Mertheuil and the Vicomte de Valmont scheme and plot; one obsessed by her own vanity, the other by his lust for a virtuous, married woman. In the pursuit of their own entertainment, de Mertheuil and de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction, attempting ...

First published in 1782, French author Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos’s novel "Dangerous Liaisons" (Les Liaisons dangereuses), a popular example of the epistolary novel (a work of fiction that takes the form of letters or other documents), tells the story of two wicked ex-lovers who amuse themselves by manipulating and seducing a pious married woman and a virtuous young maiden.Laclos’s first novel, "Dangerous Liaisons" caused an immediate sensation and has be...

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must winPierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general, best known f...

The novel is an epistolary work, meaning it is composed of letters exchanged between various characters. It takes place in the French aristocratic society of the 18th century and centers around the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two former lovers and manipulative individuals who derive pleasure from seducing and manipulating others.The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont engage in a cruel game of seduction and deceit, using their wit and charm to manipulate th...

What is a novel? A correct picture of morals put in motion.-What should be the aim of a novel? To blend instruction with amusement.-When the morals of the actors are corrupt, is it allowable, with deference to decency, to draw them in their proper shades and colours? Undoubtedly it is; but with the greatest caution, lest by giving vice, whose contagion must be dreaded, its true, though seducing and agreeable aspect, without resisting, diminishing, or rendering useless, the effect it may pr...

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make “Dangerous Liaisons” (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Viscount de Valmont and the Marchioness de Merteuil — gifted, wealthy, and bored — form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. And they play this game with such wit and style that it is impossible not to admire them, until they discover mysterious rules that they cannot understand. In the ensuin...

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Dangerous Liaisons is set in pre-Revolutionary France and revolves around the manipulative and morally ambiguous schemes of two wealthy and influential characters: the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont. The novel is structured as a series of letters exchanged between the characters, which reveal their intricate and often ruthless plans.Marquise de Merteuil: A cunning and vengeful woman who uses her charm and intelligence to manipulate those around her. She seeks to ruin the r...

You see, my dear friend, that I keep my word to you, and that bonnets and frills do not take up all my time; there will always be some left for you. However, I have seen more adornments in this one single day than in all the four years we passed together; and I think that the superb Tanville will have more vexation at my first visit, when I shall certainly ask to see her, than she has ever fancied that she afforded us, when she used to come and see us infiocchi. Mamma has consulted me in e...