Free, Lloyd Raymond. "Crébillon fils, Laclos, and the Code of the Libertine." Eighteenth Century Life 1, No. 2 (December 1974): 36–40.

Details the influence of Versac's principles of libertinage on Crébillon's Les Egarements and Laclos' Liaisons dangereuses.

Smith, Peter Lester. "Duplicity and Narrative Technique in the Roman Libertin." Kentucky Romance Quarterly XXV, No. 1 (1978): 69–79.

Explores the theme of appearance versus reality in works by Diderot, Crébillon, and Laclos.

Stewart, Philip. Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700–1750: The Art of Make Believe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969, 350 p.

Assesses the development of the memoir-novel and the "contribution to the technique of the genre made by the serious and realistic novelists of the first half of the eighteenth century."