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LACLOS, PIERRE AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE (1741–1803), French novelist.

Little in the life of the military officer offers a clue that Choderlos de Laclos was destined to write one of the most controversial and influential French novels of the eighteenth century.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was a French soldier and writer, author of the classic Les Liaisons dangereuses, one of the earliest examples of the.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was a French soldier and writer, author of the classic Les Liaisons dangereuses, one of the earliest examples of the.

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos DE Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les.

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was supposed to be helping to construct fortifications against the British on the west coast of France in but he spent most of.

French novelist, official and army general.

Born in Amiens into the lower nobility, he chose an army career in the 1760s. France was at peace and barracks life was routinely dull. He wrote poetry, erotic tales, and a comic opera, Ernestine, which failed when it was produced (1777).

In 1779, upon being upgraded to captain and sent to fortify the île d'Aix, he began to form the plan for his novel, Les liaisons dangereuses, composed while he was on leave in Paris, and published in 1782. It met with immediate success, and scandal.

He quickly took a military assignment in La Rochelle to avoid the controversy, and there met Marie Soulange-Duperré, with whom he had a child before they were married in 1784.