a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) (1782)
Born
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos 18 October 1741 Amiens, Picardy, Kingdom of France
Died
5 September 1803 (aged 61) Taranto, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Nationality
French
Occupation
Writer, official and army general
adultbasic
France
era
1600-1800