Crossword-Solution: VALMONT 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Add to this the pleasure of displaying himself in rides about the city, and of making his fine military costume, which you may still admire sculptured on his tomb in the abbey of Valmont in Normandy, and his morion, all embossed at Montlhéry, stand out a contrast against the parti-colored red and tawny robes of the aldermen and police.

The Vicomte de Valmont, the hero of Choderlos de Laclos' famous and realistic novel _Les Liaisons Dangereuses_, an absolutely cold and cunning seducer, was its god.

But even the greater and wilder Vicomte de Valmont (the hero of the famous novel of Choderlos de Laclos) is in spite of all his art and _esprit_ and perverse principles no seeker of love and no Don Juan, but a fop and a braggart, seducing women in order to boast of his success.

What is the reason of his preposterous procedure? Is he really actuated by the evil desire to injure the women he woos? Such a motive may occur occasionally (the Vicomte de Valmont was so constituted), but it cannot be regarded as the guiding principle of a life--and above everything its pettiness is the exact reverse of so great and demoniacal a character as Don Juan.

Valmont flatters himself he is not yet middle-aged, but poor Ducharme does not need his sparse gray beard to proclaim his advancing years.