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Il y a des livres dont le succès ne surprend personne. Les Liaisons dangereuses, en 1782, n'est pas de ceux-là. L'auteur, un officier d'artillerie, n'a guère de réputation dans le monde des Lettres. Son libraire prévoit un tirage convenable, mais prudent : 2000 exemplaires. Le roman sort en mars. On se l'arrache. On le dénonce, on l'admire, on le dénonce en l'admirant. C'est «le mécanisme même de la scélératesse développée dans tous ses ressorts». Chacun fait des «applications» : de quel libertin réel ce «délicieux infâme» de Valmont est-il le portrait ? L'auteur n'est pas épargné : «Parce qu'il a peint des monstres, on veut qu'il en soit un.» Le libraire, lui, ordonne une réimpression. Cela ne fait que commencer. Il est difficile de cerner les raisons d'un succès. À écouter les premiers lecteurs, celui des Liaisons tiendrait en partie à l'ambiguïté du livre. L'auteur est-il lui-même un Valmont de garnison, ou a-t-il au contraire fait oeuvre morale en dénonçant les mauvaises mours ? Vaine question : Laclos a très habilement décentré la question morale. Et puis, quand on aurait expliqué les motifs du succès, que dire de sa durée ? Les livres à la mode se démodent ; pas les Liaisons. Très vite, les héros se mettent à vivre dans l'imaginaire du public. Bientôt, ils montent sur le théâtre. Marie-Antoinette chante Les Adieux de la présidente de Tourvel, romance. Les imitations, suites ou «suppléments» fleurissent. Les rumeurs circulent. On aurait interdit la vente de l'ouvrage. Mais la première condamnation attestée date de 1823 : la Restauration n'a pas apprécié cette peinture de la société d'Ancien Régime. Plus tard, la critique marxiste verra dans le roman le pamphlet politique d'un homme déçu par l'aristocratie. Des écrivains, Baudelaire, Gide, Suarès, Giraudoux, Malraux, apportent leur pierre à l'édifice. Et des illustrateurs : à chacun sa lecture, du néoclassicisme aux éclairages les plus crus. On continue à s'emparer des héros de Laclos pour leur faire vivre d'autres aventures. Chez Pascal Quignard, Merteuil exilée rencontre Jane Austen. Certaines incarnations font date. Jeanne Moreau est aussi inoubliable au cinéma en 1959 (Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960 de Roger Vadim, dialogues de Roger Vailland) qu'au théâtre en 2007 (Quartett de Heiner Müller, 1982). Il y aura d'autres pièces, d'autres films, d'autres actrices (Glenn Close) regardées par d'autres écrivains (Philippe Sollers), deux cents ans après une Révolution dont l'oeuvre de Laclos aurait été l'une des «causes secrètes». On peut désormais tout savoir des Liaisons sans avoir lu le roman. Mais on peut aussi le lire : après tout, c'est l'un des plus grands livres qui soient. Il est publié ici d'après une édition rare, datée de 1787 et sans doute préparée par Laclos lui-même. Suit un éventail de réactions, de critiques, d'adaptations, de continuations et d'images qui

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