Laclos

American  

[la-kloh] / laˈkloʊ /

noun

1. Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de 1741–1803, French general and writer.

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Laclos British  

/ laklo /

noun

1. Pierre Choderlos de (pjɛr ʃɔdɛrlo də). 1741–1803, French soldier and writer, noted for his novel in epistolary form Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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Example Sentences

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, the author of “Dangerous Liaisons,” is often credited with “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

The play is an adaptation of a French 18th-century novel by Choderlos de Laclos; the story was also adapted into a 1988 film, “Dangerous Liaisons,” starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016

The original de Laclos novel has been adapted for the screen multiple times, including movies by Roger Vadim and Milos Forman.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2015

So be it, but Bening and Colin Firth in the Forman version get closer to Laclos and the lethal romantic cynicism of his epistolary novel.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2010

Henriot, Sillery, Louvet, Laclos, and Barbaroux, the emissary of Roland and Brissot, were the principal instigators of the émeute of the 20th of June.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.