Laclos

[ la-kloh ]

noun

1. Pierre Am·broise Fran·çois Cho·der·los de [pyer ah, n, -, brwaz, frah, n, -, swa, shaw-der-, loh, d, uh], 1741–1803, French general and writer.

Laclos

/ laklo /

noun

1. LaclosPierre Choderlos de17411803MFrenchMILITARY: soldierWRITING: novelist Pierre Choderlos de (pjɛr ʃɔdɛrlo də). 1741–1803, French soldier and writer, noted for his novel in epistolary form Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)

Example Sentences

On the motion of Laclos, the club of the Jacobins got up another.

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More timid than Laclos and Danton, he did not give any opinion as to the petition.

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Laclos proposed a petition to be sent into the departments, and covered with ten millions of signatures.

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Naturally they are most of them grimy; though there is nothing of the Laclos or even of the Paul de Kock kind.

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My very amiable reviewer thinks that eighteenth-century French society did behave à la Laclos.

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