Dec 18, 2009
*Paris. France’s capital city is the focal point of the novel’s action. During the eighteenth century, Paris was the center of social interaction. Laclos’s novel portrays the aristocracy of the period, especially the libertine segment of this social group. Paris is thus the only setting possible for Laclos’s fiction.
Madame de Rosemonde’s château (rohz-MOHND). Country house belonging to Madame de Rosemonde, the aunt of the vicomte de Valmont. The château is important as the place where the notorious libertine Valmont may encounter and...
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