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Le libertinage est aussi une manipulation

Petruța Spânu

Pages 33–38

Licence © 2009 the authors · CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The manipulation is the skillful influence (upon a group or an individual) to make him think and act as one wishes (Petit Robert); it implies a dishonest maneuver. The Eighteenth-Century libertine manipulates his victims that he wants to compromise. In the case of the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons, 1782), the vicount of Valmont manipulates her best accomplice, the marchioness of Merteuil, and leaves himself unwittingly manipulated by her.

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manipulation · libertine · victim · rivalry · letter · calculating
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Spânu, P. (2009). Le libertinage est aussi une manipulation. Dialogos, 19, 33–38.

Spânu, Petruța. “Le libertinage est aussi une manipulation.” Dialogos, vol. 19, 2009, pp. 33–38.

Spânu, Petruța. 2009. “Le libertinage est aussi une manipulation.” Dialogos 19: 33–38.

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