Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Dangerous Liaisons‪)‬

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution,

Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning

portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats,

former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and

manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the

Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an

innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest

of a virtuous married woman. But as their intrigues become more

duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they

could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious,

and deadly, than Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.