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Choderlos de Laclos (1741–1803)
Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de (lä-klō’). A French novelist; born at Amiens, 1741; died at Taranto, Italy, 1803. He is best known by his ‘Dangerous Connections’ (4 vols., 1782). He wrote also a satire against Madame Dubarry, ‘A Letter to Marget.’ His life was spared by Robespierre, whose speeches, it was said, he composed.