Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Of the novel, Baudelaire proclaimed:  "If this book burns, it burns as only ice can burn!".  It was publicly incinerated in 1782, two years after publication.  A notorious study of sexual intrigue, whose satanic hero and heroine - a pair of depraved aristocrats - plot and achieve the seduction of a young convent girl.  A fascinating exposure of an aristocracy shortly to perish in the French Revolution.