Les liaisons dangereuses de Laclos, roman de la transgression
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Abstract
Published at a time when France was undergoing great changes, Laclos' Liaisons dangereuses reflect the revolutionary dynamic in their depiction of the lives of aristocratic libertines. This thesis analyses Les liaisons dangereuses, which critics have called a roman du libertinage et de la séduction, as a novel of transgression. By claiming to take his inspiration from reality, Laclos seems to situate his text outside fiction and thus brings transgression into public life (hence the contemporary controverse surrounding the publication of this book).This thesis shows how and why the libertines Merteuil and Valmont embody transgression, to which they introduce the inexperienced Cécile de Volanges, Mme de Tourvel and Danceny. Although the novel may be best known for its corrupt protagonists and complex plot, its form is also notable. The epistolary codes of the period are violated as well : indispensable to the plot and to the ensuing transgressions, the letter also is their medium. Finally, we analyse the extent to which Les liaisons dangereuses represent an improper reading for Laclos' contemporaries. Since the text puts readers at the scene along with its devious libertines and thus leads them to transgress as well, through his book, Laclos creates for both his characters and his readership a dangerous space open to several trangressions, most of them of a sexual nature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".