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
The play is an adaptation of a French 18th-century novel by Choderlos de Laclos; the story was also adapted into a 1988 film, “Dangerous Liaisons,” starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016
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
So be it, but Bening and Colin Firth in the Forman version get closer to Laclos and the lethal romantic cynicism of his epistolary novel.
From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2010
Mérimée as a writer stands somewhere between Choderlos de Laclos or Crébillon fils, and the generation of "Realists" which was to follow him.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper
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