Choderlos de Laclos

Choderlos de Laclos was born on Oct 18, 1741 in France]. Choderlos de Laclos's big-screen debut came with Les liaisons dangereuses directed by Roger Vadim in 1959. Choderlos de Laclos is known for Dangerous Liaisons directed by Stephen Frears, Glenn Close stars as Marquise de Merteuil and John Malkovich as Vicomte de Valmont. The upcoming new movie Choderlos de Laclos plays is Dangerous Liaisons which will be released on Jul 08, 2022.

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos DE Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangerous (Dangerous Liaisons) (1782). A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis DE Sade or Restif DE La Bretonne. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangerous. It is one of the masterpieces of novelist literature of the 18th century, which explores the amorous intrigues of the aristocracy. It has inspired many critical and analytic commentaries, plays and films.