Laclos
Americannoun
noun
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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
"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
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
Some of these men were disaffected, like Marat and Hébert; others, like Barbaroux, Sillery, Laclos, and Carra, were impatient malcontents; and others, like Santerre, were but citizens, whose love of liberty became fanaticism.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
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