French soldier and author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos lost his army commission after mocking the French army and its outdated defense methods in his novel Lettre à MM.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”).
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