One character in this novel responds "Very well--war!" when told that she can either be a lover or an enemy.
One character in this novel responds "Very well--war!" when told that she can either be a lover or an enemy. One character tells her friend Sophie that she received her first love letter when her lover placed it on her harp, put it away, and then reminded her to practice. At this novel's end, one character joins a convent, another signs up with the Knights of Malta, and a third flees to Holland when she contracts a disfiguring case of smallpox. One character's mother sequesters her at her aunt Madame de Rosemonde's estate, where she is seduced by a man who has her room key. One character attempts to affect an affair between Gercourt's fiancée Cecile and Danceny, and also to seduce Madame de Tourvel. Featuring the intrigues of the schemers Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, for 10 points, name this epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
One character in this novel responds "Very well--war!" when told that she can either be a lover or an enemy.
{Dangerous Liaisons} [accept {Dangerous Acquaintances}; or Les {Liasons dangereuses}]