Laclos

[ la-kloh ]

/ laˈkloʊ /

Pierre Am·broise Fran·çois Cho·der·los de

[pyer ahn-brwaz frahn-swa shaw der-loh duh] /pyɛr ɑ̃ˈbrwaz frɑ̃ˈswa ʃɔ dɛrˈloʊ də/,1741–1803, French general and writer.

Example sentences from the Web for laclos

On the motion of Laclos, the club of the Jacobins got up another.

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men |Francois Arago
More timid than Laclos and Danton, he did not give any opinion as to the petition.

History of the Girondists, Volume I |Alphonse de Lamartine
Laclos proposed a petition to be sent into the departments, and covered with ten millions of signatures.

History of the Girondists, Volume I |Alphonse de Lamartine
There is none of the psychologie de commande, which I object to in Laclos, but a true adumbration of life.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 |George Saintsbury

Naturally they are most of them grimy; though there is nothing of the Laclos or even of the Paul de Kock kind.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 |George Saintsbury

Laclos

/ (French laklo) /

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