Pierre Choderlos de Laclos reentered the French army in 1792, having lost his commission with the publication of his 1786 satirical novel Lettre à MM. de l’Académie Française sur l’éloge de M. le Maréchal de Vauban (1786; “Letter to the Gentlemen of the French Academy on the Eulogy of Marshal de Vauban”), which mocks the military. After reentering, he rose to the rank of general under Napoleon, serving in the Rhine and Italian campaigns.
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