Laclos
Americannoun
noun
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, the author of “Dangerous Liaisons,” is often credited with “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
In “Dangerous Liaisons,” a decadent drama that debuts on Starz on Sunday, Englert and Denton play much younger versions of the characters introduced by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in the epistolary 1782 novel.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
The original de Laclos novel has been adapted for the screen multiple times, including movies by Roger Vadim and Milos Forman.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2015
France Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses John S. ? One of the few on my university course I read from cover to cover.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
More timid than Laclos and Danton, he did not give any opinion as to the petition.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
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