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Word: valmont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here you are," Vicomte de Valmont, the roué hero of an 18th century novel, chimed in benignly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragicomic Musketeers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Paris who have "decided to model their lives on those of distinguished men." Bored by both their ordinary selves and their ordinary lives, they dream of rebellion, plots and seductions. Their big day comes when a worried spinster, who lives with an aristocratic family just outside Paris, tells "Valmont" about a plot worthy of Dumas: the haughty old head of the family has locked and bolted his pretty daughter Denise into her bedroom and will not let her out until she swears to break off an affair with a middleaged, married antique dealer. Will nobody rescue Denise and restore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragicomic Musketeers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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