Les Liaisons dangereuses
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:02:38
Some of the characters in this story
have such appalling manners

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that it is hard to believe
they could live in our age...

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the age of honest men
and modest, prudent women.

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From the Preface to The Dangerous Liasons.
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Black becomes her.
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- What's her background?
- Aristocratic.

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She came from the countryside...
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dressed in ready-to-wear.
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But she couldn't have been
more fully armored.

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We were all in love with her.
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She was seen with many men.
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We all boasted of having had her.
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But, since we couldn't prove it...
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our bragging soon stopped.
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Maybe she's always been virtuous.
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No one will ever know. Unless he does.
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- Where did they meet?
- At the Political Science Academy.

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They married just before his graduation.
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- Is he with the Foreign Ministry?
- Yes. He travels a lot.

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He'll end up heading his father's factories
or his mother's bank.


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