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Laclos — Artillery officer and author of Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1741–1803
Second son of a secretary of the intendance of Picardy, a second lieutenant out of the artillery school of La Fère, he spent twenty years in garrison and wrote a single novel there, signed with his initials. A Jacobin, then imprisoned under the Terror, reinstated as a brigadier general in 1800, he died in Italy commanding the artillery of the army of Naples. (Editorial synthesis)
Laclos was born on 18 October 1741. (source: Larousse)
Laclos was born in Amiens. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Laclos died on 5 September 1803. (source: Larousse)
Laclos died in Taranto. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Laclos died of dysentery. (source: Larousse and BnF)
Recorded work of Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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