Pierre Choderlos de Laclos – 18th-century French novelist, author of Dangerous Liaisons, and an artillery officer. His scandalous novel mixed eroticism, politics, and psychology, exposing aristocratic decadence on the eve of the Revolution.
📖 Dangerous Liaisons caused a sensation, scandal, and fascination at once. 🎭 It was quickly adapted for stage, and later for film, opera, and ballet. ⚔️ Laclos was an artillery officer; writing began as a pastime while on leave. 👩💼 The novel openly mocked aristocratic hypocrisy. 📚 Often dubbed a “one-novel author”, though he also wrote essays and military works. 🖋 Its epistolary form was groundbreaking in style. 🌍 Some contemporaries warned it was “dangerous” for young readers. 👑 The book was banned in several countries. 💔 Unlike his characters, Laclos himself was not known as a libertine. 😂 Curiosity: friends joked he wrote “the most immoral book in a military camp”. 😄 Amusing fact: he once declared he only wanted to create “something to make his name last” – and succeeded with a single novel.