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| | France Portal | | Literature Portal This box: view • talk • edit | Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, a French official and army general, was born on October 18, 1741 in Amiens, France and died in Taranto, Italy on September 5, 1803. He is most famously remembered for his epistolary novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), a classic celebrated for its exploration of seduction, revenge, and human malice, although the author meant it primarily to reflect, through its principal characters, the reprehensible state of eighteenth-century French female education and its moral consequences. It is also a morality tale about the corrupt, squalid nobility of the Ancien Régime. October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ...
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The cathedral in Amiens Location within France Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ...
Founded 706 BC as Taras () Region Apulia Mayor Rossana Di Bello Area - City Proper 217 km² Population - City (2001) - Density (city proper) 201,349 973/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 40°28 N 17°14 E www. ...
September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ...
1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Titlepage of Aphra Behns Love-Letters (1684) An epistolary novel is written as a series of documents. ...
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a famous French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782. ...
Ancien Régime means Old Rule or Old Order in French; in English, the term refers primarily to the social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties. ...
The story has been adapted as a film several times—notably in 1988 as Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears, and in 1989 as Valmont, directed by Miloš Forman with screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears. ...
Stephen Frears (born June 20, 1941) is a British film director. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Valmont is a 1989 Orion drama/romance motion picture starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, and Siân Phillips. ...
Wax figure of Miloš Forman at Prague wax museum Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman, is a film director, actor and script writer. ...
Jean-Claude Carrière (born September 19, 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France) is a screenwriter and actor. ...
Laclos died in the former convent of Saint Francis in Taranto, but following the demise of Napoleon Bonaparte the locals destroyed his burial tomb and it is believed that his bones were tossed into the sea. Saint Francis of Assisi (born in Assisi, Italy, ca. ...
Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français...
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