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Letter 48 in which Valmont uses a lover as a writing desk and fills the letter with private jokes about this. I'm reading in first English and then French, and fun thing, there was an extra layer to the joke that was untranslatable in English: 'la table' uses feminine pronouns. "Combien elle va s’embellir à mes yeux! j’aurai tracé sur elle le serment de vous aimer toujours!"