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
"Liaisons," written by Christopher Hampton from the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, was first performed 30 years ago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2016
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
Laclos had gone to him in London from time to time to try again to tempt the exile's ambition, and make him ashamed of a deference for La Fayette, which France took to be cowardice.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
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