His first works, several light poems, appeared in the Almanach des Muses. ĭespite a promotion to the rank of captain (1771), Laclos grew increasingly bored with his artillery garrison duties and with the company of soldiers he began to devote his free time to writing. In 1763 Laclos became a Freemason in 'L'Union' military lodge in Toul. As a young lieutenant, he briefly served in a garrison at La Rochelle until the end of the Seven Years' War (1763). It has inspired many critical and analytic commentaries, plays and films.īorn in Amiens into a bourgeois family, in 1761 Laclos began studies at the School of Artillery of La Fère, ancestor of the École Polytechnique. It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, which explores the amorous intrigues of the aristocracy. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer however, his initial plan was to 'write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death' from this point of view he mostly attained his goals with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangereuses. Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos ( French: 18 October 1741 – 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons) (1782).Ī unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Restif de La Bretonne.

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos

Portrait attributed to Alexander Kucharsky

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