Laclos, Pierre (Ambroise François) Choderlos de

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Laclos, Pierre (Ambroise François) Choderlos de (1741–1803) French general and novelist. His one important work, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782), caused a sensation and was only belatedly recognized as a great work.

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Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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