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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Born

in Amiens, France

October 18, 1741

Died

September 05, 1803

Genre

Fiction

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Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.

A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. 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 . It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 59,060 ratings · 3,081 reviews · 356 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Liaisons dangereuses 4.05 avg rating — 57,593 ratings — published 1782 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Read by the Cast of the Stage Play by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Source Material), Dominic West (Narrator), Janet McTeer (Narrator) 3.63 avg rating — 290 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Liaisons dangereuses - Prépas scientifiques 2024 by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, René Pomeau (Editor), Nathalie Kremer (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 122 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De l'éducation des femmes 3.18 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1783	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las Amistades Peligrosas, 1: Cartas Recogidas En Una Sociedad y Publicadas Para La Instruccion de Algunas Obras... 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1786 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las Amistades Peligrosas, 2: Coleccion De Cartas Recopiladas En Una Sociedad... 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1959 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las amistades peligrosas 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Niebezpieczne Związki by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Tadeusz Boy Żeleński (Translator) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Œuvres complètes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Gallimard (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (?)

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

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“Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

tags: evil, good, humanity, virtue

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“Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

tags: romantic

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November 2015 Old School Classic Poll

1869, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 406 pages

30 votes, 20.7%

1516, Utopia by Thomas More, 135 pages

29 votes, 20.0%

1879, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

20 votes, 13.8%

1880, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages

16 votes, 11.0%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 210 pages

12 votes, 8.3%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages

11 votes, 7.6%

1782, Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 404 pages

10 votes, 6.9%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages

9 votes, 6.2%

1895, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, 170 pages

8 votes, 5.5%

145 total votes

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