Pierre (Ambroise Fran

Novelist and soldier, born in Amiens, N France. He spent nearly all his life in the army, but saw no active service until he was 60, and ended his career as a general. His one masterpiece, Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782, Dangerous Acquaintances), a novel in epistolary form, became an immediate sensation for its cynical analysis of personal and sexual relationships. It has been successfully adapted for the theatre and several films.

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.